Digest of United States Supreme Court Reports: A-D

Digest of United States Supreme Court Reports: A-D

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Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13:

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This set organizes the case law of the Supreme Court alphabetically with headnotes arranged under modern titles of law. It also includes a Table of Cases, which lists alphabetically all decisions, specifying Digest sections where headnotes are located. - Publisher.


Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-century America

Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-century America

Author: Kenneth De Ville

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1992-04

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0814718485

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It was in the 1840s that Americans first began to sue physicians on a wide scale. The unprecedented wave of litigation that began in this decade disrupted professional relations, injured individual reputations, and burdened physicians with legal fees and damage awards. De Ville's account discusses this outbreak of malpractice litigation with the use of anecdotes.