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 a rich interaction between the legal and medical narratives concerning fault. It offers an account of legal development where the law and lawyers were deeply embedded in, and influenced by, the broader social context, identifying a gradual shift towards asserting the independence of courts from accepted medical narrative in the light of technological advances.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-3-465-04367-6
ISBN-Online
978-3-465-14367-3
Publisher
Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series
Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte
Volume
314
Language
English
Pages
262
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - X
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1.1 Iintroduction No access
1.2 The organisation of care No access
1.3 Internal regulation and conceptions of error No access
1.4 Medicine and the legal system No access
1.5 Conclusions No access
2.1 The "Carolina" 1532 No access
2.2 Medical error before 1871 No access
2.3 The "Reichsstrafgesetzbuch" 1871 No access
2.4 Conclusions No access
3.1 The Roman inheritance No access
3.2 Nineteenth-century Germany No access
3.3 Contractual standards of fault No access
3.4 Conclusions No access
4.1 The Roman delictual inheritance No access
4.2 Nineteenth-century Germany No access
4.3 Delictual standards of fault No access
4.4 Unorthodox practice No access
4.5 Conclusions No access
5.1 Introduction No access
5.2 Categorising medical error in the "BGB" No access
5.3 Fault and medical error in the "BGB" No access
5.4 The "Kunstfehler", medical advances and patient safety No access
5.5 The impact of the National Socialism No access
5.6 Conclusions No access
Conclusion No access Pages 221 - 238
List of Abbreviations No access Pages 239 - 240
Bibliography No access Pages 241 - 258
Index of terms No access Pages 259 - 262
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