Rachael Mulheron

Medical Negligence: Non-Patient and Third Party Claims

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 professionalâ s liability in negligence towards a wide variety of non-patients.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 245mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781138279629
• ISBN-10: 1138279625
• Artikelnr.: 57042612

Autorenporträt

Rachael Mulheron is Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London. A former practising lawyer in Brisbane, Australia, she is also author of The Class Action in Common Law Legal Systems: A Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2004), and The Modern Cy-près Doctrine: Applications and Implications (Routledge Cavendish Publishing, London, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Part I Setting the Context: The book: an overview; Establishing negligence in novel non
patient scenarios. Part II Actual or Potential Negligence Liability for Physical Injuries to Non
Patients: Injuries to non
patients caused by physically
impaired or mentally
ill patients; Contraction or inheritance of disease by non
patients from patients; 'Bad Samaritan' liability: failing to assist non
patients; 'Good Samaritan' liability: intervening to assist non
patients. Part III Actual or Potential Negligence Liability for Non
Physical Injuries to Non
Patients: Pure economic loss claims by 3rd parties associated with the patient; Pure psychiatric injury claims by 3rd parties associated with the patient; 'Fear
of
the
future' claims by non
patients; Wrongfully
accused 3rd parties in neglect or abuse cases; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.