Offender profilings for animal murders

Moors' Murders Publicity

Mental Health, to call the attention of the Press Council to a matter which recently has been the cause of considerable concern to members of the Association. Their concern arises from the amount of space, detail and prominence which has been given by certain sections of the Press in their reporting of a recent murder case.

Breast cancer breakthrough in gene profilings?

So far 40 of the 50 samples they have sent off to the Netherlands Cancer Institute for the test (10 were spoilt due to ‘technical issues’) have given them dramatically improved treatment options because of the much improved prognostic accuracy. Where half of these patients would have received chemotherapy under traditional prognostication, only 16 actually received it, with the survival gain ju...

Some curare murders?

The President: Now it is my pleasure to introduce Dr Ann Ferguson. The title of her talk is “Some Curare Murders?” Well, that interests me. Dr Ferguson is a retired anaesthetist and she says that her particular interest in curare goes back to a research year at McGill University, in Montreal. Then, on retirement, she did the Diploma in the History of Medicine at the Society Apothecaries and her...

Insulin Murders: True Life Cases

The book is divided into 9 chapters each addressing a particular aspect of the long case examination. The ‘History Taking’ section is comprehensive, outlining a recommended format, along with useful screening questions to rule out other psychopathologies. However, the mental state examination is sparsely covered and would not equip the reader with the necessary phenomenological terms. Likewise,...

Rich Offender, Poor Offender: Why It (Sometimes) Matters in Sentencing