Trial By Trickery
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Author | : Keith Hunter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | : 9780473117214 |
R v Watson is the legal description of perhaps New Zealand s most infamous murder case: a prosecution involving a 5 month police inquiry in1998, a three month trial in 1999, and an Appeal against Conviction in 2000, all involving the blatant deceiving of the public by high-ranking police and legal officials.
Author | : Eli Colter |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1945 |
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Author | : Dr. Simon Singh |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 140908180X |
Welcome to the world of alternative medicine. Prince Charles is a staunch defender and millions of people swear by it; most UK doctors consider it to be little more than superstition and a waste of money. But how do you know which treatments really heal and which are potentially harmful? Now at last you can find out, thanks to the formidable partnership of Professor Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh. Edzard Ernst is the world's first professor of complementary medicine, based at Exeter University, where he has spent over a decade analysing meticulously the evidence for and against alternative therapies.He is supported in his findings by Simon Singh, the well-known and highly respected science writer of several international bestsellers. Together they have written the definitive book on the subject. It is honest, impartial but hard-hitting, and provides a thorough examination and judgement of more than thirty of the most popular treatments, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, aromatherapy, reflexology, chiropractic and herbal medicine.In Trick or Treatment? the ultimate verdict on alternative medicine is delivered for the first time with clarity, scientific rigour and absolute authority.
Author | : Richard Parry |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307492125 |
“An extraordinary real-life adventure of men battling the elements and themselves, told with ice-cold precision.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In the dark years following the Civil War, America’s foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he embarked on a harrowing, landmark expedition. With financial backing from Congress and the personal support of President Grant, Captain Hall and his crew boarded the Polaris, a steam schooner carefully refitted for its rigorous journey, and began their quest to be the first men to reach the North Pole. Neither the ship nor its captain would ever return. What transpired was a tragic death and whispers of murder, as well as a horrifying ordeal through the heart of an Arctic winter, when men fought starvation, madness, and each other upon the ever-shifting ice. Trial by Ice is an incredible adventure that pits men against the natural elements and their own fragile human nature. In this powerful true story of death and survival, courage and intrigue aboard a doomed ship, Richard Parry chronicles one of the most astonishing, little known tragedies at sea in American history. “ABSORBING . . . Suspense builds as Parry describes the events leading up to Hall’s ‘murder,’ then climaxes in horrifying detail.” –Publishers Weekly “RIVETING.” –Library Journal
Author | : Mary Cowden Clarke |
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Total Pages | : 882 |
Release | : 1845 |
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Author | : Mary Cowden Clarke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Dramatists, English |
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Author | : Suzanne Lebsock |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393326062 |
Recounts the events surrounding the dramatic post-Civil War trial of a young African American sawmill hand who was accused of ax murdering a white woman on her Virginia farmyard and who implicated three other women in the crime.
Author | : Mary Cowden Clarke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Mary Cowden Clarke |
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Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 1870 |
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Author | : Alisha Rankin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2021-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022674499X |
In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived—the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a dozen other accounts of poison trials were committed to writing. Alisha Rankin tells their little-known story. At a time when poison was widely feared, the urgent need for effective cures provoked intense excitement about new drugs. As doctors created, performed, and evaluated poison trials, they devoted careful attention to method, wrote detailed experimental reports, and engaged with the problem of using human subjects for fatal tests. In reconstructing this history, Rankin reveals how the antidote trials generated extensive engagement with “experimental thinking” long before the great experimental boom of the seventeenth century and investigates how competition with lower-class healers spurred on this trend. The Poison Trials sheds welcome and timely light on the intertwined nature of medical innovations, professional rivalries, and political power.