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The white representation of blacks in colonial North America & the relationship between law & race are investigated with reference to 17th- & 18th-century legal codes on slavery, execution sermon/crime narratives, & the 1796 case of Abraham Johnstone, a former slave executed for murder without any evidence. African Americans at the time were routinely physically punished as reprimands for petty transgressions, but those convicted of a capital offense received the death penalty. The white ruling class used the time between sentencing & execution to prove the immorality & criminality of the black subject. It was expected that black criminals would admit guilt & give themselves up to the "laws of man & God." Johnstone refused to do so, professing his innocence & engaging the issue of race. The support of an abolitionist in writing this unique antislavery narrative is discussed. 32 References. M. Pflum

The first of two studies reported here by Donna Hunter, Gerry McCartney, Susan Fleming and Fiona Guy investigated whether a specialist nursing service could improve the health care of 162 children in residential care in Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire and Argyll & Bute. It found that after the introduction of the service, the proportion of children with completed carer-held health records (BAAF health record booklets) increased from three per cent to 77 per cent; the proportion receiving a 'pre-admission medical' increased from 38 per cent to 48 per cent; the proportion adequately immunised increased from nine per cent to 56 per cent; the proportion with at least one outstanding medical referral decreased by at least four per cent; the number registered with a dentist increased from 14 per cent to 62 per cent and the proportion who received a 'comprehensive health assessment' increased from 17 per cent to 58 per cent. Thematic analysis of free text journals suggested that universal health services were much more accessible in Argyll & Bute due to well-developed interagency working, low numbers of children in residential care and low rates of staff turnover. In the more urban areas, the main advantage of the service was thought to be in the facilitation of interagency working. The service was received positively by residential care workers and children in residential establishments. This study suggests that the provision of a specialist nursing service can improve the health care of children in residential accommodation.

This book considers the 2015 Charleston mass shooting from a rhetorical perspective and offers an appraisal of the discourses that cradled and emerged from it. It argues that Charleston was different from other mass shootings in America and that the differences can be heard and seen in that rhetoric.