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Trials of an expert witness : tales of clinical neurology and the law

Title
Trials of an expert witness : tales of clinical neurology and the law / Harold L. Klawans.
Author
Klawans, Harold L.
Publication
  • Boston, Massachusetts : Little, Brown, [1991]
  • c1991

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Description
277 pages; 25 cm
Summary
This casebook of a prominent Chicago neurology professor will no doubt be compared to Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" (Summit Bks., 1987). Like Sacks, Klawans presents a series of extremely interesting neurological cases, but these deal solely with the law, drawn from his experiences as an expert witness in malpractice cases. Having testified both for the defense and the prosecution, Klawans offers a birds-eye view of the relationship between medicine and the law--two very different worlds that often misunderstand each other. He discusses how doctors can make misdiagnoses and how malpractice suits are prosecuted. Klawans also explains the role of the expert witness and the reason neurology is often considered the most "intellectual'' of the medical specialties. - Library Journal
Subject
  • Forensic neurology > Anecdotes
  • Forensic neuropsychology > Anecdotes
  • Medical jurisprudence
  • Neurophysiology
  • Expert Testimony
  • Forensic Medicine
  • Neurophysiology
  • forensic medicine
  • Medical jurisprudence
  • Forensic neurology
  • Forensic neuropsychology
Genre/Form
  • Anecdotes
  • Anecdotes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Rules of the game -- Locked in -- Waving good-bye -- Epilepsy and the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald -- Just dandy -- Taking a risk -- Better living through chemistry -- Therapeutic misadventure -- Sleeping killer -- Woman who had difficulty falling -- Not tonight, dear -- Twinkle defense -- "Nobody shot me": the saga of an iatrogenic disease told in three suits and an epilogue -- Crazy like a fox -- Where there's smoke -- Primary gain -- As pure as the driven snow -- Double jeopardy -- Sleeping beauty.
ISBN
  • 0316496839
  • 9780316496834
LCCN
90006509
OCLC
  • ocm21973983
  • 21973983
  • SCSB-1926211
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library