Lethal Decisions

Author : Arthur J. Ammann
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826503888
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lethal Decisions written by Arthur J. Ammann and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-person account by one of the pioneers of HIV/AIDS research chronicles the interaction among the pediatric HIV/AIDS community, regulatory bodies, governments, and activists over more than three decades. After the discovery of AIDS in a handful of infants in 1981, the next fifteen years showed remarkable scientific progress in prevention and treatment, although blood banks, drug companies, and bureaucrats were often slow to act. 1996 was a watershed year when scientific and clinical HIV experts called for treating all HIV-infected individuals with potent triple combinations of antiretroviral drugs that had been proven effective. Aggressive implementation of prevention and treatment in the United States led to marked declines in the number of HIV-related deaths, fewer new infections and hospital visits, and fewer than one hundred infants born infected each year. Inexplicably, the World Health Organization recommended withholding treatment for the majority of HIV-infected individuals in poor countries, and clinical researchers embarked on studies to evaluate inferior treatment approaches even while the pandemic continued to claim the lives of millions of women and children. Why did it take an additional twenty years for international health organizations to recommend the treatment and prevention measures that had had such a profound impact on the pandemic in wealthy countries? The surprising answers are likely to be debated by medical historians and ethicists. At last, in 2015, came a universal call for treating all HIV-infected individuals with triple-combination antiretroviral drugs. But this can only be accomplished if the mistakes of the past are rectified. The book ends with recommendations on how the pediatric HIV/AIDS epidemic can finally be brought to an end.

Author : Martin Clancy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1616146486
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder at the Supreme Court written by Martin Clancy and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a unique behind the scenes look at the capital punishment cases that made it to the highest court in the land.

Author : Daniel Suarez
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451417704
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kill Decision written by Daniel Suarez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientist and a soldier must join forces when combat drones zero in on targets on American soil in this gripping technological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez. Linda McKinney studies the social behavior of insects—which leaves her entirely unprepared for the day her research is conscripted to help run an unmanned and automated drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into a faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without human intervention. Together, McKinney and Odin must slow this advance long enough for the world to recognize its destructive power. But as enigmatic forces press the advantage, and death rains down from above, it may already be too late to save mankind from destruction.

Author : Stephen Skinner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509929533
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lethal Force, the Right to Life and the ECHR written by Stephen Skinner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its case law on the use of lethal and potentially lethal force, the European Court of Human Rights declares a fundamental connection between the right to life in Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights and democratic society. This book discusses how that connection can be understood by using narrative theory to explore Article 2 law's specificities and its deeper historical, social and political significance. Focusing on the domestic policing and law enforcement context, the book draws on an extensive analysis of case law from 1995 to 2017. It shows how the connection with democratic society in Article 2's substantive and procedural dimensions underlines the right to life's problematic duality, as an expression of a basic value demanding a high level of protection and a contextually limited provision allowing states leeway in the use of force. Emphasising the need to identify clear standards in the interpretation and application of the right to life, the book argues that Article 2 law's narrative dimensions bring to light its core purposes and values. These are to extract meaning from pain and death, ground democratic society's foundational distinction between acceptable force and unacceptable violence, and indicate democratic society's essential attributes as a restrained, responsible and reflective system.

Author : Ronald Arkin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420085956
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots written by Ronald Arkin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expounding on the results of the author's work with the US Army Research Office, DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, and various defense industry contractors, Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots explores how to produce an "artificial conscience" in a new class of robots, humane-oids, which are robots that can potentially perform more et

Author : Sandra Brown
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1455501484
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lethal written by Sandra Brown and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young mother living on the Louisiana bayou and a man accused of murder must solve a corruption case while on the run from a dangerous manhunt. When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable: a treasure that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. He's there to retrieve it at any cost. Honor soon discovers that even her friends can't be trusted. From the FBI offices of Washington, D.C. to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens to destroy them . . . and the fabric of society.

Author : David Walton
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 1633885615
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Laws Lethal written by David Walton and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured on Wall Street Journal's list of the Best Science Fiction of 2019 The place, New York City; the time, the very near future. The streets of Gotham are swarming with self-driving cars, which are now a reality, and the competition between two entrepreneurs for this cutthroat futuristic business grows increasingly fierce. But when the escalating technological warfare produces superintelligent AI computers that use data to decide who should live and die, the results are explosive . . . and deadly. It is left to young Naomi Sumner, inventor of the virtual world in which the AIs train, to recognize that the supercomputers are developing goals of their own—goals for which they are willing to kill. But can she stop these inhuman machines before it is too late? More importantly, will she stop them? Three Laws Lethal takes the reader on a wild ride in a world that is still imaginary . . . for now . . .

Author : Jeffrey T. Bordin
Publisher : Nonstop Internet
ISBN 13 : 9780977208821
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lethal Incompetence: Studies in Political and Military Decision-Making written by Jeffrey T. Bordin and published by Nonstop Internet. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the causes of incompetent political decision-making that leads to premature and unwarranted military intervention.

Author : KC Youngblood
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469141620
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lethal Choices written by KC Youngblood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard S. Shortt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031052692
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lethal Force and New Zealand Police written by Richard S. Shortt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the notion that the New Zealand Police are one of only four global police services that does not have routinely armed officers, using arguments and facts drawn from 2000 to 2019, a period of important change for the organisation and its relationship with firearms, particularly following the outrages of the Christchurch mosques terrorist massacres in 2019, and the 2020 shooting death of a young police constable in Aotearoa New Zealand. This book provides a brief history of the Police from its beginnings to the present day with a specific focus on its relationship with firearms, which contextualize the law that justifies use of lethal force in a country that has abolished the death penalty. It examines police policies, procedures, training and structures governing deployment and use of firearms in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the independent oversight that now applies to fatal and non-fatal shootings by Police. Using 43 publicly released oversight agency reports and data directly related to police shootings, such as who is being shot, this book investigates how the police are using lethal force, who is being affected, and what this might mean for the service with regards to the operational deployment of firearms and the potential for use of lethal force within the community into the future.