'Riot', rhetoric and 'race'

Riot Surgery

Sir,?The statement made by Dr. A. IC. Basu in his article 'Experience of Riot Surgery' (I.M.G., August 1947, p. 465) that 'shock for some reasons is conspicuously absent in these cases in the first few hours (Som and Mukherjee, 1947). In my experience this is dangerous teachingis utterly untrue and misleading. We never said that shock was conspicuously absent in all cases. We said in summary th...

Riot Surgery

Riot Control Agents

Why do people riot?

London burning: Buildings in Tottenham, North London, on fire during the riots at the beginning of August. (Photo: PA Wire/Press Association Images.) The ‘English riots’ of this summer started in the North London suburb of Tottenham on Saturday 6th of August, following a peaceful demonstration protesting against the death of Mark Duggan, who had been shot by special police forces two days earli...

Riot ContRol Agents