Editor's Note
Sep. 1, 2007
From the Editor
By Martin Lasden
Can the killing and eating of another human being ever be justified? That was the question raised by The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens, a famous British case tried in 1884. The defendants were a captain and a crewman who survived at sea in a tiny lifeboat for nearly a month by subsisting on the body of their cabin boy.
Their situation was ...
Can the killing and eating of another human being ever be justified? That was the question raised by The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens, a famous British case tried in 1884. The defendants were a captain and a crewman who survived at sea in a tiny lifeboat for nearly a month by subsisting on the body of their cabin boy.
Their situation was ...
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