| Description |
xxi, 319 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Medico-legal series |
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Medico-legal series.
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| Contents |
1. 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 -- 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. Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police -- 11. Aspects of the Law Governing Recovery of Damages for Mere Psychiatric Injury |
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12. Medical and Legal Developments in the Late 1990s: Not Quite a Full Circle |
| Notes |
Includes Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-308) and index |
| Subject |
Forensic psychiatry.
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Liability for emotional distress.
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Liability (Law)
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Personal injuries.
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Psychic trauma -- Law and legislation.
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Traumatic shock -- Law and legislation.
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| LC no. |
98018563 |
| ISBN |
1855219247 |
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