I read with interest the article on repeat abortion1 by Stone and Ingham in the October 2011 issue of the Journal that explores the characteristics of women who underwent repeat termination of pregnancy (TOP) in England and Wales in 2010–2011. The article’s fi ndings closely match those of a study2 I performed 30 years ago in Bristol, which had the identical objective. Our study was of a simila...

Up to the present in this country there has not been a great deal of systematized work done along the lines of child guidance. On the medical side much attention has been paid to the problem of mental deficiency, but with this child guidance has little or nothing to do, except in so far as it may be necessary to recognize the mental defective who comes to the clinic and transfer him to the care...

It is probably true to say that, within months of birth, everyone in the world will have his own personal food preferences. These will be based on foods which have been made familiar to him either because they grow where he lives or because they can be transported there at reasonable cost, but his ultimate choice will be based on many additional personal and cultural factors. Among these are th...

This report provides an overview of the criminal forensic mental health system in Great Britain, that is England and Wales. The report is based on the author's participant observation as a visiting consultant psychiatrist at a regional forensic facility in Manchester, England during early 1994. British law casts a net over a wider population of forensic patients than does U.S. law. There is a f...

This paper explores how r isk is being discussed and considered in local s i t i ng decisions re la t ing to major hazard ins ta l la t ions in B r i t a i n . I t considers how r isk debates and decisions can be improved to ensure that local communities can par t ic ipate e f f ec t i ve l y , and thus, have confidence in hazard cont ro l . The observations are based on the author's research i...