When the Brain Is No Longer in the Courtroom
A physician's reading of Italy's Roggero case: what Sapolsky's neurobiology of acute stress can illuminate about a moment that lasted sixty seconds, and the honest limits of what science can tell a courtroom.
Italy’s Medical-School Admissions Row Is Arguing About the Wrong Thing
Italy is arguing over whether the new medical-school "filter semester" was too hard. A practising clinician argues this is the wrong argument. The real question is what kind of doctor we are trying to select, and with what instruments.
The Trevallion Case and the Two Separations
Why removing a child from an environment is not the same legal act as separating that child from a parent — and why conflating them matters. A reading of the Italian "family in the woods" case in the frame of proportionality, evidence and harm.