Compensation schemes for damages caused by healthcare and alternatives to court proceedings : comparative law perspectives /

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Imprint:Cham : Springer, 2021.
Description:1 online resource (458 p.).
Language:English
Series:Ius Comparatum ; v.53
Ius comparatum ; v. 53.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12574573
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Other authors / contributors:Bach-Golecka, Dobrochna, editor.
ISBN:9783030670009
3030670007
9783030669997
3030669998
Notes:Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 24, 2021).
Summary:The book discusses compensation mechanisms and other non-judicial means that offer alternatives to court proceedings, designed and provided for within national legal regimes. Such schemes are primarily of a civil or administrative character and are mainly intended to supplement criminal liability for medical negligence. As such, the book focuses on medical malpractice and prospective medical harm from a civil law perspective. It examines the contemporary perspective of a patient-physician relationship, which has evolved from a relation of a quasi-patrimonial character into a partnership of quasi-equal parties, dealing with a medical treatment procedure as a scientific endeavor. It also reviews the extra-legal conditions that are taken into account in compensation arrangements, particularly the need to satisfy a psychological urge for conciliation and empathy on the part of medical personnel. Lastly, the book explores the responsibility of public authorities and healthcare providers to guarantee access to healthcare that is of a sufficient quality, based upon standards provided for in international (and European) law.
Other form:Print version: Bach-Golecka, Dobrochna Compensation Schemes for Damages Caused by Healthcare and Alternatives to Court Proceedings Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 9783030669997
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-030-67000-9