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Medical innovation and bad outcomes : legal, social, and ethical responses

Title
Medical innovation and bad outcomes : legal, social, and ethical responses / edited by Mark Siegler, and by Stephen Toulmin, Franklin E. Zimring, Kenneth F. Schaffner.
Publication
Ann Arbor, MI : Health Administration Press, 1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Siegler, Mark, 1941-
  • University of Chicago. Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.
  • American Society of Law and Medicine.
Description
xvii, 285 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
Papers presented at a conference at the University of Chicago in May, 1985.
Subject
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • Products liability > Drugs > United States > Congresses
  • Products liability > Medical instruments and apparatus > United States > Congresses
  • Medicine > Research > Law and legislation > United States > Congresses
  • Medical innovations > Social aspects > United States > Congresses
  • Medical ethics > United States > Congresses
  • Social Responsibility
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Technology Assessment, Biomedical
  • Medical ethics
  • Medical innovations > Social aspects
  • Medicine > Research > Law and legislation
  • Products liability > Drugs
  • Products liability > Medical instruments and apparatus
  • Medizin
  • Produzentenhaftung
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Éthique médicale > États-Unis
  • Responsabilité du fait des produits > Médicaments > États-Unis
  • Responsabilité du fait des produits > Matériel médical > États-Unis
  • Bioéthique > États-Unis
  • Technologie médicale > États-Unis
  • Médecine > Recherche > Droit > Législation > États-Unis
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • "Published in cooperation with the American Society of Law & Medicine and the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago."
  • Papers presented at a conference at the University of Chicago in May, 1985.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
1. Paying the price of medical progress: Causation, responsibility, and liability for bad outcomes after innovative medical care / Mark Siegler and Mark Sheldon -- SECTION ONE: Bad outcomes from medical innovation: Implications for science, medicine, and society -- 2. Technological progress and social policy: The broader significance of medical mishaps / Stephen Toulmin -- 3. The scientific process and the development of medical innovation: The Daedalus effect / Baruch S. Blumberg -- 4. The scientific and ethical foundations of medical innovations / Paul Meier -- 5. Microsocial influences on the use of medical innovations / Alvin R. Tarlov -- SECTION TWO: Causation and responsibility: Conceptual analysis -- 6. Causation in medicine and the law / Kenneth F. Schaffner -- 7. Moral and legal responsibility / Kurt Baier -- 8. A broader view of medical responsibility / James M. Gustafson -- 9. The morals and technique of medical innovation / Richard A. Epstein -- SECTION THREE: Legal frameworks for providing compensation to the injured -- 10. Different compensation approaches to bad outcomes from standard treatment, innovative treatment, and research / Alexander Morgan Capron -- 11. Legal liability for medical innovation / Richard A. Epstein -- 12. The role of causation in several legal systems / Charles M. Gray -- SECTION FOUR: Developing a public policy for compensation -- 13. Liability and insurance for medical maloccurrences: Are innovations different? / Patricia M. Danzon -- 14. Some social bases of compensation schemes / Franklin E. Zimring -- 15. Responding to biomedical innovation: A beginning synthesis and modest proposal / Alan J. Weisbard.
ISBN
  • 0910701156
  • 9780910701150
  • 0910701180
  • 9780910701181
LCCN
86014863
OCLC
  • ocm13796250
  • 13796250
  • SCSB-9019059
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library