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The interfaces of medicine and law : The history of the liability for negligently caused psychatric injury ( nervous shock)
Mendelson Danuta
The interfaces of medicine and law : The history of the liability for negligently caused psychatric injury ( nervous shock) - Brookshield Asghate Publishing Company 1998 - 319p xxi
Contents
The concept of nervous shock - the common law, witchcraft, and medicine;
Professor Erichsen and shock occasioned by railway collisions;
Coultas v Victorian Railway Commissioners and the law of injury consequential upon fright;
legal responses to the Coultas decision;
traumatic neurosis, shellshock and nervous shock;
the 1930s - Donoghur v Stevenson, the American law of emotional distress and the case of an overturned coffin;
employees, mothers and liability for nervous shock in Australia - bystanders in the House of Lords;
"law, marching with medicine but at the rear and limping a little" in the post World War II period;
Jaensch v Coffey and the new notion of proximity;
post 1984 developments in medical science and Alcock Ors v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police;
aspects of the law governing recovery of damages for mere psychiatric injury;
medical and legal developments in the late 1990s - not quite a full circle.
9781855219243
1. Liability For Emotional Distress2. Liability - Law3. Traumatic Shock - Law & Legislation4. Psychic Trauma - Law & Llegislation
344.041000 / MEN
The interfaces of medicine and law : The history of the liability for negligently caused psychatric injury ( nervous shock) - Brookshield Asghate Publishing Company 1998 - 319p xxi
Contents
The concept of nervous shock - the common law, witchcraft, and medicine;
Professor Erichsen and shock occasioned by railway collisions;
Coultas v Victorian Railway Commissioners and the law of injury consequential upon fright;
legal responses to the Coultas decision;
traumatic neurosis, shellshock and nervous shock;
the 1930s - Donoghur v Stevenson, the American law of emotional distress and the case of an overturned coffin;
employees, mothers and liability for nervous shock in Australia - bystanders in the House of Lords;
"law, marching with medicine but at the rear and limping a little" in the post World War II period;
Jaensch v Coffey and the new notion of proximity;
post 1984 developments in medical science and Alcock Ors v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police;
aspects of the law governing recovery of damages for mere psychiatric injury;
medical and legal developments in the late 1990s - not quite a full circle.
9781855219243
1. Liability For Emotional Distress2. Liability - Law3. Traumatic Shock - Law & Legislation4. Psychic Trauma - Law & Llegislation
344.041000 / MEN