The criminalisation of fatal medical mistakes

The criminalisation of medical mistakes in Canada: a review.

the effect of esp materials on medical studentsreading proficiency

چکیده این تحقیق " مواد درسی " را به عنوان یکی از بحث برانگیزترین موضوعات آموزش زبان تلقی کرده و درتلاش است به سه سوال عمده پاسخ دهد: 1) آیا بکارگیری جزوات گرداوری شده توسط گروهی از مدرسین تاثیر بسزایی در میزان توانش خواندن و درک متون انگلیسی دانشجویان پزشکی دارد؟ 2) آیا استفاده از مواد درسی اصلی( بین المللی )، توانش خواندن و درک متون انگلیسی دانشجویان پزشکی را به طور چشمگیری تحت تاثیر قرار م...

Thurman • Institutional Responses to Medical Mistakes

Health care institutions must decide whether to inform the patient of a medical error. The barriers to disclosure are an aversion to admitting errors, a concern about implicating other practitioners, and a fear of lawsuits and liability. However, admission of medical errors is the ethical thing to do and may be required by law. When examined, the barriers to such disclosures have little merit, ...

Rethinking the wrongness constraint on criminalisation

Orthodox thought holds that criminalisation should be subject to a wrongness constraint: that is, that conductmaybe criminalised only if it iswrongful. This article argues that this principle is false, at least as it is usually understood. On the one hand, the wrongness constraint seems to rest on solid foundations. To criminalise conduct is to facilitate its condemnationandpunishment; to coerc...

Criminalisation of HIV transmission: for what purpose?

In May 1996, Zimbabwe's Minister of Justice proposed legislation to make it a criminal offence for anyone who knows that he or she is infected with HIV or any other sexually transmitted disease to have a sexual relationship. Liability would be greater for convicted HIV-seropositive rapists. The South African AIDS Legal Network is opposed to legislation which specifically criminalizes the tran...