Women's Last Wills and Testaments in Hull, England (c. 1450–1555)

Last wills and testaments in a large sample of suicide notes: implications for testamentary capacity.

BACKGROUND The leaving of a will prior to death by suicide is a relatively unexplored area. AIMS To determine the frequency and details of will content in suicide notes. METHOD Coroner records for 1565 deaths by suicide in Toronto (2003-2009) were reviewed for (a) will content and (b) the presence of depression, psychotic illness, dementia and intoxication prior to death. RESULTS In total...

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

Dispensing with Wills' Act Formalities for Substantively Valid Wills

The last epidemic of plague in England? Suffolk 1906-1918.

APART from a single case of plague contracted in a laboratory at Porton in 1962 the last English outbreak of plague occurred in Suffolk. There were several official reports published soon after and there have been a number of short accounts based on these reports. This account of the epidemic was compiled with the aid of contemporary sources such as newspapers, letters, minutes of committees an...

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...