Medical Negligence: Common Law Perspectives by John Healy
This work critically evaluates the development of the tort of medical negligence throughout the common law, looking at many jurisdictions such as the UK, Canada, Ireland and Australia.
Medical Negligence: Common Law Perspectives
Medical Negligence: Common Law Perspectives
Summary
This work seeks to explore the area of medical negligence, focusing on the development of the tort through the common law, looking at many jurisdictions, such as the UK, Canada, Ireland and Australia.
Medical Negligence: Common Law Perspectives Summary
Table of Contents
History and culture of the medical profession. Medical negligence - diagnosis and treatment. The expert medical witness. Disclosure and the doctrine of informed consent. The professional standard assessment of disclosure. Twin challenges: the elective and the inquisitive patients. Disclosure and consent - negligence and battery. Proof of causation in malpractice trials. Diagnosis, treatment and disclosure in the research context. Medical negligence in its legal, clinical and social context.
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GOR003802310
9780421680609
0421680601
Medical Negligence: Common Law Perspectives by John Healy
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
1999-11-04
250
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