The Development of Medical Liability in Germany, 1800-1945

by Colm Peter MC Grath and Colm Peter McGrath

This volume examines the development of medical liability in Germany during its intense formative period from 1800-1945. It focuses on how the fault requirement in civil law was conceptualised and applied to liability for errors in the diagnosis and treatment of a patient. By focusing on the development of the law, and how it related and responded to changes in the nature of medicine, medical practitioners and healthcare over this period, it uncovers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3465043677
• ISBN13: 9783465043676
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Verlag Vittorio Klostermann
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.