Malpractice and Medical Liability

Part I. Overview

1. Present and Future Perspectives for Medical Malpractice, Responsibility, and Liability
S. Davide Ferrara, Guido Viel, Rafael Boscolo-Berto

Part II. Historical Background

2. Historical Overview of Medical Liability
Maurizio Rippa Bonati, Fabio Zampieri

3. Praxis et Mala-Praxis Medica
Ivone Cacciavillani

Part III. Legislative and Juridical Background

4. European Legislative and Juridical Overview
Paola Frati, Matteo Gulino

5. Causal Value and Causal Link
S. Davide Ferrara

Part IV. Major European Countries and/or Areas

6. Medical Responsibility and Liability in German-Speaking Countries: Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
Thomas Bajanowski, Walter Rabl, Tony Fracasso

7. Medical Responsibility and Liability in the United Kingdom
Peter Vanezis

8. Medical Responsibility and Liability in France
Eric Baccino

9. Medical Responsibility and Liability in Spain
María Castellano Arroyo, Ricardo Ángel Yágüez

10. Medical Responsibility and Liability in Portugal
Vera Lúcia Raposo, Duarte Nuno Vieira

11. Medical Responsibility and Liability in Italy
Pietrantonio Ricci, Francesco Ausania, Paolo Arbarello

12. Medical Responsibility and Liability in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
Alvydas Pauliukevičius, Marija Caplinskienė, Romas Raudys, Ojars Teteris, Grigorijs Vabel, Marika Väli

Part V. Consensus Document: European Guidelines

13. Medico-Legal Methods of Ascertainment and Criteria of Evaluation in Medical Responsibility and Liability
S. Davide Ferrara, Eric Baccino, Thomas Bajanowski, Rafael Boscolo-Berto, Maria Castellano Arroyo, Ricardo Angel Yágüez, Alvydas Pauliukevičius, Pietrantonio Ricci, Peter Vanezis, Duarte Nuno Vieira, Guido Viel, Enrique Villanueva

Part VI. Final Statements

14. Requirements and Final Recommendations
S. Davide Ferrara, Rafael Boscolo-Berto, Guido Viel

Part VII. Iconography

15. Historical Iconography from the “Vincenzo Pinali” Antique Medical Library
S. Davide Ferrara, Guido Viel, Rafael Boscolo-Berto

Keywords: Biomedicine, Forensic Science, Forensic Medicine, Medical Law