Full Description
This title was first published in 2001of key periodical literature on issues of major concern in medical practice and malpractice. It also contains an introductory overview of this fast-developing field.
Contents
ContentsT. Ozar; What's so special about medicine?, Daniel P. Sulamasy; Clinical loyalties and the social purpose of medicine, M. Gregg Bloche. Liability of Medical Practitioners: A Fiduciary Relationship?: The doctor as fiduciary, Andrew Grubb. Confidentiality: Secrets revealed: the limits of medical confidence, Louis Waller. Standard of Care: 100 years of harmful error: the historical jurisprudence of medical malpractice, Theodore Silver; Medicine, accountability and professionalism, Jonathan Montgomery; The Bolam test and the responsible expert, Michael A. Jones; Medical malpractice and the contract/tort boundary, P.S. Atiyah; Medical malpractice implications of alternative medicine, David M. Studdert, David M. Eisenberg, Francis H. Miller, Daniel A. Curto, Ted J. Kaptchuk and Troyen A. Brennan; Practice guidelines as legal standards governing physician liability, Clark C. Havighurst. Causation: Causation, risk and loss of chance in medical negligence, Marc Stauch. Informed Consent: Rethinking informed consent, Peter H. Schuck; English medical law and 'informed consent': an antipodean assessment and alternative, P.D.G. Skegg; The powers of compassion: truth-telling among American doctors in the case of dying patients, Naoko T. Miyaji. Institutional Liability: Enterprise medical liability and the evolution of the American health care system, Kenneth S. Abraham and Paul C. Weiler. Social Foundations of Medical Malpractice Litigation: Medical malpractice in 20th-century United States: the interaction of technology, law and culture, Kenneth de Ville. Medical Injury, Litigation and Compensation: An empirical analysis of accidents and accident law, Troyen A. Brennan. Perceptions of Malpractice and Malpractice Litigation: Physicians' discourses on malpractice and the meaning of malpractice, Timothy Marjoribanks, Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Ann G. Lawthers and Lynn M. Peterson; Why do people sue doctors? A study of patients and relatives taking legal action, Charles Vincent, Magi Young and Angela Phillips. Reform and Future Directions: Alternative Dispute Resolution: Adapting mediation to link resolution of medical malpractice disputes with health care quality improvement, Edward A. Dauer and Leonard J. Marcus. No-Fault: Defining 'medical misadventure': lessons from New Zealand, Ken Oliphant. Doctor-Patient Relationships in the Electronic Age: E-Mail: On call and online: sociohistorical, legal and ethical implications of e-mail for the patient-physician relationship, Alissa R. Spielberg. Telemedicine: Telemedicine and integrated health care delivery: compounding malpractice liability, Patricia C. Kuszler; Name index.
