Responsibility for drug-induced injury : a reference book for lawyers, the health professions, and manufacturers
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Responsibility for drug-induced injury : a reference book for lawyers, the health professions, and manufacturers
Elsevier , Sole distributors for the USA and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1988
Available at 6 libraries
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"This book is dedicated by the authors to the World Health Organization to mark the 40th year of its work in the service of health throughout the world"--p. [v]
Bibliography: p. 363-389
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
At last, a comprehensive yet clear medico-legal guide to the massive problem of dealing with drug-induced illness, a field where medicine and law meet - and often conflict. - How does one find evidence of risk and assess damages? - In what way is the victim to be helped? - How does one prevent it happening again? This expert analysis brings together the world's legal and medical experience to provide ready answers. All medical facts and legal rules, until now scattered across the world's literature, are brought together and presented in a clear, extensively referenced (literature from more than 20 languages!), yet readable volume.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Section A: General Principles 1. Characteristics of drug-induced injury. 2. Forum, evidence and proof. 3. Evidence as to a general causal link in the community. 4. Evidence as a causal link in the individual case. 5. The assessment of severity. 6. The state and availability of knowledge. Section B: Responsibility of Parties . 7. Individual and joint liability. 8. Responsibility of the prescriber. 9. Responsibility of the manufacturer or intermediate trader. 10. Responsibility of the dispensing pharmacist or drug retailer. 11. Responsibility of hospitals and institutions. 12. Responsibility of the patient. 13. Responsibility of governments and official agencies. Section C: Special Situations . 14. Ante-natal, pre-conceptual and perinatal injuries. 15. Narcotics, dangerous drugs and psychotropic agents. 16. Clinical investigation of drugs. 17. Self-medication. 18. Non-orthodox treatment. 19. Vaccines and biologicals. Section D: Broad Coverage of Risk . 20. Strict liability and no-fault compensation schemes. References. Index of conventions, laws and regulations. Index of judicial and disciplinary cases. General (medical) index.
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