This unique collection focuses on the legal and ethical issues surrounding the medico-legal handling of death. It highlights the tension between personal autonomy and medical responsibility.

Fort Meade was the home of the famous Seventh Cavalry after its ignominious defeat in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Troops from Fort Meade played a pivotal role in the events that led to the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890. It was the scene of imprisonment of Ute Indians who made the mistake of interpreting their new citizenship status as freedom from government control. The fort survived the mechanization of the horse cavalry, aided the record-breaking Stratosphere Balloon flight of 1935, and became a training site for the nation's first airborne troops. Fort Meade existed for sixty-six...

Britain's colonial past stalks every corner of the world - from street-names and restaurants to second and third generation immigrant communities. These embrace people from backgrounds as diverse as the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and Australia and New Zealand. In literary terms another Britain is being formulated, one largely but not exclusively non-white. Who have been the writers involved? What vision of Britain do they offer? How has their imagining of the culture differed?