Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shipman effect

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English

Syllables
ship-man -ef-fect
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A cultural change in the field of medicine sparked by the conviction of Harold Shipman in 2000 for murdering his patients, and the formal recommendations from the subsequent Shipman Inquiry.

British usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

the Shipman effect (canonical)

Questions

What does shipman effect mean?
A cultural change in the field of medicine sparked by the conviction of Harold Shipman in 2000 for murdering his patients, and the formal recommendations from the subsequent Shipman Inquiry.

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