Medical negligence : non-patient and third party claims / / Rachael Mulheron
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| Autore: |
Mulheron Rachael P
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| Titolo: |
Medical negligence : non-patient and third party claims / / Rachael Mulheron
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| Pubblicazione: | Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (470 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 344.4204/11 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medical personnel - Malpractice - England |
| Third parties (Law) - England | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Preface; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; List of Abbreviations; List of Tables; List of Figures; Notes on Mode of Citation and Style; PART I: Setting the Context; 1 The Book: An Overview; 2 Establishing Negligence in Novel Non-Patient Scenarios; PART II: Actual or Potential Negligence Liability for Physical Injuries to Non-Patients; 3 Injuries to Non-Patients Caused by Physically-impaired or Mentally-ill Patients; 4 Contraction or Inheritance of Disease by Non-Patients from Patients; 5 'Bad Samaritan' Liability: Failing to Assist Non-Patients |
| Chapter 6 'Good Samaritan' Liability: Intervening to Assist Non-PatientsPART III Actual or Potential Negligence Liability for Non-Physical Injuries to Non-Patients; 7 Pure Economic Loss Claims by Third Parties Associated with the Patient; 8 Pure Psychiatric Injury Claims by Third Parties Associated with the Patient; 9 'Fear-of-the-Future' Claims by Non-Patients; 10 Wrongfully-Accused Third Parties in Neglect or Abuse Cases; Appendix Potential Liability to Non-Patients and Third Parties; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Healthcare professionals face an increasing threat of litigation from parties whom they have never met in their daily medical practice and who look nothing like the traditional patient. This book explores the legal principles and conundrums which arise when determining a healthcare professional's liability in negligence towards a wide variety of non-patients. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Medical negligence |
| ISBN: | 1-315-59466-8 |
| 1-317-09835-8 | |
| 1-317-09834-X | |
| 1-282-74356-2 | |
| 9786612743566 | |
| 0-7546-9112-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809712603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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