THE HYDROPATHS' VICTIM.

Unemployment: Blame the Victim?

This paper investigates a problem of 'state dependency'. People who have been unemployed in the past are much more likely than others to become unemployed in the future. But is it unemployment itself that causes future unemployment or is there something else, some measured or unmeasured form of heterogeneity, in individual characteristics or environmental circumstances, that causes both the pas...

Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability

Although it has been claimed that people care more about identifiable than statistical victims, demonstrating this “identifiable victim effect” has proven difficult because identification usually provides information about a victim, and people may respond to the information rather than to identification per se. We show that a very weak form of identifiability—determining the victim without prov...

When the Victim Forgets

The kidney: both culprit and victim.

Today, it is universally acknowledged that, in hypertension, the kidney is both culprit and victim.1 Kidney malfunction causes hypertension, and hypertension, in turn, aggravates chronic kidney disease (CKD) and accelerates its progression. High blood pressure (frank hypertension and blood pressure values in the high normal range) are clearly correlated to progressive kidney injury, both in exp...

Management of the moribund carbon monoxide victim.

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is the commonest single cause of fatal poisoning in the U.K. (Broome & Pearson, 1988). The clinical features are numerous and include headache, fatigue, dizziness, confusion, memory loss, paraesthesia, chest pain, abdominal pain, nausea, and diarrhoea as well as coma, convulsions and death. Without adequate treatment many patients develop neuropsychiatric sequelae...