Causation in law and medicine / edited by Ian Freckelton, Danuta Mendelson.
- Title
- Causation in law and medicine / edited by Ian Freckelton, Danuta Mendelson.
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- Aldershot, Hampshire, England : Ashgate/Dartmouth ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2002.
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- xxxii, 524 p.; 23 cm.
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- Contents
- Pt. A. The Concept of Causation in Law, Medicine and Science. 1. Principles and Values Underlying the Concept of Causation in Law / Antony Honore. 2. Scientific and Legal Approaches to Causation / Jane Stapleton. 3. The Cause of Disease and Illness: Medical Views and Uncertainties / Peter Greenberg. 4. Aspects of Causation in Hippocratic Medicine and Roman Law of Delict / Danuta Mendelson. 5. Rebels Without a Cause?: Judges, Medical and Scientific Evidence and the Uses of Causation / Gary Edmond and David Mercer -- Pt. B. The Concept of Justice and Causal Responsibility in Tort Law. 6. Legal Rules Governing the Requirement of Causation in Tort Law / Ian Callinan. 7. Fault, Causation and Responsibility: Is Tort Law Just an Instrument of Corrective Justice? / Keith Mason. 8. Loss of Chance / Harold Luntz. 9. Causality and Spinal Pain: The Problem of Back Pain / Dennis Smith -- Pt. C. Issues of Causal Responsibility, Agency and Harm in Criminal Law. 10. Principles of Causation in Criminal Law / David Lanham. 11. Death Causation in Palliative Medicine / Michael Ashby. 12. Euthanasia and the Criminal Law: What Will Sever a Causal Link? / David Malcolm. 13. Issues of Medical and Legal Causation Relating to Alzheimer's Disease / Robert Helme and Danuta Mendelson -- Pt. D. Causation in Forensic Medicine and Coronial Law. 14. Cause in Forensic Pathology: The Cause and Manner of Death / Stephen Cordner. 15. Forensic Medicine: Issues in Causation / David Wells. 16. Causation in Coronial Law / Ian Freckelton -- Pt. E. Causation, Evidence and Proof in Law and Medicine. 17. Causation in Law and Psychiatry / Ralph Slovenko. 18. Causation in the Context of Medical Practitioners' Liability for Negligent Advice / John Doyle. 19. Statistical Proof of Causation / Eric Magnusson. 20. Epilogue: Dilemmas in Proof of Causation / Ian Freckelton.
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- Harvard Library
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-518) and index.
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