Responsibility and the Negligence Standard

Medical negligence: who sets the standard?

'The law imposes the duty of care: but the standard of care is a matter of medical judgment'. So says Lord Scarman, outlining the hitherto accepted 'Bolam' standard, in his recent speech in the House of Lords decision of Sidaway v Bethlem Royal Hospital, reflecting earlier judicial dicta suggesting that it is for the medical profession rather than the courts to determine whether or not a medica...

Heterogeneous physicians, imperfect courts, and the negligence standard

Type 1 and 2 errors of courts deciding in medical malpractice trials a¤ect the physicians’provision of care. The paper at hand uses a principal-agent model to explain why uncertain liability prospects induce a welfare reducing separated equilibrium where altruistic physicians practice defensive medicine and sel…sh physicians act negligently. By minimizing the loss of welfare, it identi…es an op...

Informed consent in Pennsylvania--the need for a negligence standard.

Negligence and Child Abuse

با وجود هرگونه رفتار خشونت آمیز با کودکان یا نوجوانان توسط والدین، محافظین و مراقبین دیگر را سوءرفتار گویند. رفتار نادرست با کودکان همیشه وجود داشته گرچه ممکن است با خواندن مقاله های جدید اینطور تصور شد که سوءرفتار با کودکان پدیده ای جدید و مربوط به قرن بیستم است ولی متاسفانه کودکان در تمام قرون مورد سوءرفتار قرار می گرفتند. در قرن بیستم که به عبارتی قرن کودک لقب گرفته، کشتارهای ساکت زیادی بوقو...

Intoxication, Recklessness and Negligence

According to what is here called the “Intoxication Recklessness Principle,” a defendant who, thanks to voluntary intoxication, is unaware of a condition of which a reasonable person would have been aware is to be treated as though he were reckless with respect to that condition, rather than negligent. And, according to what is here called the “Intoxication Negligence Principle,” a defendant who...