The Interfaces of Medicine and Law: The History of the Liability for Negligently Caused Psychiatric Injury (nervous Shock)
- ISBN-10
- 1855219247
- ISBN-13
- 9781855219243
- Category
- Forensic psychiatry
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Dartmouth Publishing Company
- Author
- Danuta Mendelson
Description
There has been a scarcity of scholarly investigations of the interface between medicine and law in the area of negligently occasioned psychiatric damage. This book traces the evolution of liability for nervous shock from the perspective of the developments in medical science and psychiatry.
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