Negligence: the different focus of medical and legal concerns.
This article looks at additional areas where medical practice has been instrumental in developing the law. These cases do not involve malpractice, but do highlight how the different concerns, priorities and methodologies of medicine and law can produce problems and anomalies. One focus is on causation in relation to industrial disease, and the other on liability for negligently inflicted psychological harm.
Hodgson
John
J
Department of Academic Legal Studies, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
D015984:Causality; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*; D035501:Uncertainty; D006113:United Kingdom