Criminalising Medical Malpractice
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Criminalising Medical Malpractice

A Comparative Perspective

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Criminalising Medical Malpractice

A Comparative Perspective

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About This Book

The criminalisation of healthcare malpractice has become a highly topical and somewhat controversial question in recent years. Studies have demonstrated that in England and Wales, the trend towards holding healthcare professionals to account for malpractice is rapidly growing, abolishing the deference doctors enjoyed decades ago. The changing attitude of judges to claims for clinical negligence has been well documented. The role of the criminal process in England and Wales has been less fully analysed with the criminal law playing a very limited role until recently in the regulation of poor healthcare practice. In contrast, in France, the criminal process has for a long time been invoked more readily to respond to cases of healthcare malpractice, which involved even mere errors.

This book compares English and French criminal law responses to healthcare malpractice and considers what lessons the French model can provide for potential reform in England and elsewhere. The book takes the HIV-contaminated blood episode as a primary example of the different approaches France and England have in dealing with healthcare malpractice. Kazarian emphasises the impact of rules of substantive criminal law and criminal procedure on the way in which healthcare malpractice is criminalised in a given country.

This book explores the key lessons to be drawn on whether the criminal process is an appropriate means to respond to instances of healthcare malpractice. It proposes that features of French criminal law and criminal procedure might be useful to counteract healthcare malpractice.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9781351582308
Edition
1
Topic
Diritto
Subtopic
Teoria e pratica del diritto

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Healthcare negligence in French and English criminal law
  10. 3 Criminal proceedings for healthcare negligence in France and England and Wales
  11. 4 Contaminated blood: a tale of two scandals
  12. 5 Is criminal law the answer to individual healthcare negligence?
  13. 6 Institutions in the dock and alternatives to the criminal process
  14. 7 Conclusion
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index