This article sheds important new light on the hybrid space between medicine and law in which medico-legal autopsies are situated. By examining original empirical data obtained during interviews with ...

It’s been a while, partly because of workload (and life) pressures elsewhere, but also because I have been struggling to move past an increasing sense that I am simply not up to the task of moving …

YouTube video by Future Medicine TV

A while ago I posted about resources and purpose. I wrote about an issue which had played on my mind for some time – the fact that there was, and remains, what I perceive to be an unwillingness to …

At the end of August, I attended the DDD17 (Death, Dying and Disposal) Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands—a thought-provoking week. Together with Heather Conway, I organised a panel titled “The Polit...

Reforming the law

On 2nd April, Humberside Police announced that the CPS had authorised that, in addition to a couple of other charges, funeral director Robert Bush, has been charged with 30 counts of preventing a l…

Talking about Bereavement · Episode

The need to show respect to the dead is considered relevant across all societies and throughout history. However, recent events in the UK have increased public awareness of the treatment of the dea…