Legal scenarios in the coronavirus time: Medico legal implications in the aspects of governance

Tuberculosis: Medico-Legal Aspects

Tuberculosis is a diffusive infectious disease whose typical behaviour differentiates it from other infectious diseases spread by human-to-human transmission (flu, chicken pox, cholera, etc.) that follow a classic epidemic pattern. Indeed, in the presence of a known source of Koch bacilli that is capable of spreading the bacteria by air, not all exposed individuals inhale the bacteria, not all ...

The Medico-Legal Aspects of Venereal Disease.

THE PRESIDENT said she was sure all members present had immensely enjoyed Dr. Thompson's paper; it had been put together with meticulous care, and contained much historical information. She feared that doctors often considered a good deal of privilege attached to their evidence, and thought that was a pity. Present to-night, too, was another barrister, Dr. Letitia Fairfield, and she was pleased...

The medico-legal aspects of anaesthesia.

AT THIS TIME Of frequent and sometimes profound adjustments in our professional environment, we must occasionally deviate from purely academic and administrative preoccupations and consider matters relating to our place in society. Many of us were educated in the earher years of this century. We were influenced by teachers, many of whom were dedicated clinicians of the old school. They introduc...

Medico-Legal Aspects of the Ruxton Case

Medico-legal aspects of mesothelioma.

The Authors, reviewing the Literature on asbestos-related Malignant Mesothelioma (MM), found that because of its very peculiar characteristics, the causal link between professional asbestos exposure and the development of this tumour is very difficult to define in respect to: diagnosis, causal link and individuation of possible culpable conducts. The evaluation of causal link in different medic...