The law and medicine : friend or nemesis?

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jaggs-Fowler, Robert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Radcliffe Publishing , c2013
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Materiae philosophicae
  • 3. Medicine, law and society
  • 4. The ancients' perspectives of medicine : doctors and the law from 400 to 1700 CE
  • 5. The evolution and legal recognition of the general medical practitioner
  • 6. The impact of the common law on the practice of medicine
  • 7. The impact of statute law on the practice of medicine
  • 8. The 21st-century perspective
  • 9. Conclusion