Early recognition of hypoxic lesions in the cerebellum using Lie staining (HBFP staining)

Using the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum from 42 rapidly and 28 slowly dying patients, we tried to find a correlation between the premortal hypoxie in brain and the result of HBFP staining. We found four different stages of staining and discuss here the causes of staining and false results.     

The effect of the unrestrained back seat passenger on the injuries suffered by drivers and front seat passengers in head-on collisions

In head-on collisions, loose items in the rear of the car, such as luggage or unrestrained back seat passengers can cause substantial loading on the back of the front seats. The purpose of this paper is to study if such loading increases the injury severity for the front seat occupants. Data were collected from all fatal automobile accidents for a period of 1 year in Sweden. Information was collected about the survivors as well as the decreased. Head-on collisions were selected, and the injuries of the front seat occupants were scored according to the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and the Injury Severity Score (ISS). In evaluating the injury severity, the collision energy was taken into account. The results indicate that belted front seat passengers sustain a higher injury risk with an unrestrained passenger in the back seat. These results are valid for collision speeds below 45 km/h.     

Introduction to the special issue on Swedish quantitative criminology

Introduction to the special issue on Swedish quantitative criminology     

Wide-bore capillary column gas chromatography in toxicological analysis of biological samples from multidrug overdoses fatalities

Fatalities from multidrug overdoses account for 25% of the total number of all poisoning fatalities and as such deserve greater attention from researchers than single drug overdoses. High resolution, good sensitivity, and repeatability provided by gas chromatography (GC) with wide-bore capillary silica and glass columns make GC particularly useful for identification and quantitative analysis of drugs in toxicological screening of autopsy specimens. Results of toxicological findings in three deaths from multidrug overdoses (methaqualone, doxepine, methotrimeprazine, pernazine-aspirin, paracetamol, codeine-morphine, diazepam) occurring in routine medical practice are reported.     

Feststellung der Vertraulichkeit einer Tierversuchsstudie nach dem Gentechnikgesetz

Ohne Zusammenfassung     

Various aspects of thanatogenesis and forensic medical diagnosis of combined poisoning with ethanol and psychotropic substances

Epidemiological and some medicolegal aspects of fatal poisonings with basic groups of psychotropic drugs in combination with ethanol are discussed and some recommendations concerning the improvement of medicolegal diagnosis of such poisonings are presented.     

Rendition/Eviction – A Post-Apartheid Reflection

The article analyzes the internal logic of the conceptual and structural hierarchies involved in slavery and apartheid land law. The rendition or recovery of fugitive slaves and the eviction of squatters from land during apartheid both involve the use of legal procedures and institutions to protect property interests. However, in the period following the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of apartheid, this logic was not abandoned – liberty was acquired at the price of economic subjugation. The new forms of slavery will continue unless the abolition of slavery and the termination of apartheid are explicitly celebrated as political acts that replace the urge to dominate and possess with a measure of public-spiritedness and non-possessiveness. Politics can be kept alive only when the compelling logic of domination and hierarchy is resisted through a different, public-spirited rendition of eviction.Paper read at the Critical Legal Conference 2003, entitled Transition and Transformation; Resistances and Reconciliation; Communities Within and Beyond Law, Johannesburg, 5–7 September 2003. Thanks to Gerhard du Toit and Maartje Eefting for research assistance. Peter Fitzpatrick (No Higher Duty: Mabo and the Failure of Legal Foundation, Law & Critique, 13 (2002), 233–252) and Frank I. Michelman (The Bill of Rights, the Common Law, and the Freedom-Friendly State, paper read at the University of Miami, 21–22 March 2003, published version forthcoming) inspired some of the ideas worked out here. Thanks to Frank Michelman for permission to refer to his unpublished article, and for helpful comments on a draft of this article.     

Public Trust in (or Cynicism about) Other Nations across Time

This study uses survey data from 1994 and 1999 to examine the nature, causes, and consequences of Americans generalized beliefs about other nations during the decade prior to September 11, 2001—a relatively sedate era in international relations compared to the Cold War and post-September 11 periods. As was the case after the terrorist attacks, relatively few citizens expressed high levels of trust in other nations; more did in 1999 than in 1994, however. Partisanship, beliefs about government, age, and education were related to trust in other nations at the individual level, with some of these relationships varying over time. Trust in other nations, in turn, was related to preferences for diplomacy and support for military interventions. The strength of the former relationship varied over time, whereas the nature of the latter relationship depended on the nature of the intervention in question. The findings raise the question of why so few Americans trust other nations not only during periods of external threat but also during quieter times.     

Gender Equality and Reproductive Decision-Making

In Evans, both the U.K. High Court and Court of Appeal upheld Howard Johnstons right to refuse Natallie Evans access to the stored embryos which represented her only hope of having a child which was genetically her own. In this note, I focus on claims of gender (in)equality in the resolution of Evans. My argument is that such claims are often made all too easily, without full consideration of the problems of advancing them in the context of procreative decision-making, where men and women are inevitably differently situated. I conclude that although equality arguments are not wholly without value in this context, they need be used with extreme care. And, with due caution, I set out an equality argument of my own which was not made in Evans.