The Telling Room

‘Telling Tales’: Exploring Narratives of Life and Law within the (Mock) Jury Room

In a context in which current prohibitions under the Contempt of Court Act 1981 prevent research into the substantive content of real jury deliberations, the ways in which jurors in criminal trials in England and Wales approach the task of reaching collective verdicts remains the subject of considerable conjecture. This has necessitated the use of simulation studies to replicate as far as possi...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

Telling the truth.

Are doctors and nurses bound by just the same constraints as everyone else in regard to honesty? What, anyway, does honesty require? Telling no lies? Avoiding intentional deception by whatever means? From a utilitarian standpoint lying would seem to be on the same footing as other forms of intentional deception: yielding the same consequences. But utilitarianism fails to explain the wrongness o...

Telling the Teenagers

guidance clinic, a reception centre, the management committee of a mental hospital, and the Marriage Guidance Council?-to give answers to the questions of puzzled and confused young people of all classes. In these experiences, the foreword says that she found herself tracing distress and disaster to their source in unhappy or broken homes. And the effect of the book would be to help young peopl...

Telling Patients the Truth

This article discusses the ethical necessity of health care workers telling their patients the truth about both their diagnosis and prognosis. This necessity is based upon respect for persons, utility, and kindness. Within this ethical obligation to tell the truth, however, there are several different ways in which the truth can be told. In particular, this paper stresses that telling patients ...