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100			_aMendelson Danuta
245			_aThe interfaces of medicine and law : The history of the liability for negligently caused psychiatric injury ( nervous shock)
260			_aLondon _bDartmouth Publishing Co, Ltd. _c1998
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505			_aContents Acknowledgements Preface Table of Cases Table of Statures Introduction I The Concept of Nervous Shock: the Common Law, Witchcraft, and Medicine 2 Professor Erichsen and Shock Occasioned by Railway Collisions 3 Coultas v. Victorian Railway Commissioners and the Law of Injury Consequential upon Fright 4 Legal Responses to the Coultas Decision 5 Traumatic Neurosis, Shell-Shock, and Nervous Shock 6 The 1930s: Donoghue v. Stevenson, the American Law of Emotional Distress, and the case of an overturned coffin 7 Employees, Mothers and Liability for Nervous Shock in Australia; Bystanders in the House of Lords Hay or Bourhill v. Young 8 'Law, marching with medicine but at the rear and limping a little' in the Post World War II Period 9 Jaensch v. Coffey and the New Notion of Proximity 10 Post 1984 Developments in Medical Science and Alcock & Ors v. ChiefCol1stable of South Yorkshire Police : 11 Aspects of the Law Governing Recovery of Damages for Mere Psychiatric Injury 12 Medical and Legal Developments in the Late 1990s: Not Quite a Full Circle Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
650			_a1. Medical Law - Personal Injury2. Pschic Trauma - Law - Legislations
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