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008			160316s1998 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781855219243
040			_cn
082			_a344.041000 _bMEN
100			_aMendelson Danuta
245			_aThe interfaces of medicine and law : The history of the liability for negligently caused psychatric injury ( nervous shock)
260			_aBrookshield _bAsghate Publishing Company _c1998
300			_a319p _cxxi
365			_bRs.3,744
505			_aContents 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.
650			_a1. Liability For Emotional Distress2. Liability - Law3. Traumatic Shock - Law & Legislation4. Psychic Trauma - Law & Llegislation
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