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Causation in Law and Medicine.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART A: THE CONCEPT OF CAUSATION IN LAW, MEDICINE AND SCIENCE
- 1 Principles and Values Underlying the Concept of Causation in Law
- 2 Scientific and Legal Approaches to Causation
- 3 The Cause of Disease and Illness: Medical Views and Uncertainties
- 4 Aspects of Causation in Hippocratic Medicine and Roman Law of Delict
- 5 Rebels Without a Cause?: Judges, Medical and Scientific Evidence and the Uses of Causation
- PART B: THE CONCEPT OF JUSTICE AND CAUSAL RESPONSIBILITY IN TORT LAW
- 6 Legal Rules Governing the Requirement of Causation in Tort Law
- 7 Fault, Causation and Responsibility: Is Tort Law Just an Instrument of Corrective Justice?
- 8 Loss of Chance
- 9 Causality and Spinal Pain: The Problem of Back Pain
- PART C: ISSUES OF CAUSAL RESPONSIBILITY, AGENCY AND HARM IN CRIMINAL LAW
- 10 Principles of Causation in Criminal Law
- 11 Death Causation in Palliative Medicine
- 12 Euthanasia and the Criminal Law: What Will Sever a Causal Link?
- 13 Issues of Medical and Legal Causation Relating to Alzheimer's Disease
- PART D: CAUSATION IN FORENSIC MEDICINE AND CORONIAL LAW
- 14 Cause in Forensic Pathology: The Cause and Manner of Death
- 15 Forensic Medicine: Issues in Causation
- 16 Causation in Coronial Law
- PART E: CAUSATION, EVIDENCE AND PROOF IN LAW AND MEDICINE
- 17 Causation in Law and Psychiatry
- 18 Causation in the Context of Medical Practitioners' Liability for Negligent Advice
- 19 Statistical Proof of Causation
- 20 Epilogue: Dilemmas in Proof of Causation
- Table of Cases
- Bibliography
- Index.