Personal Injury and Damage Ascertainment under Civil Law

Part I. Juridical and Methodological Overview

1. Bio-Medicolegal Sciences and Personal Injury/Damage Ascertainment in the Post-Genomic Era
Santo Davide Ferrara, Guido Viel, Rafael Boscolo-Berto

2. The Holistic and Systematic Approach in Legal Medicine
Santo Davide Ferrara, Gian Aristide Norelli, Riccardo Zoia

3. Causal Value and Causal Link
Santo Davide Ferrara

4. Compensation for Personal Injury in a Comparative Perspective: The Need to Bridge Legal and Medicolegal Knowledge
Giovanni Comandè

Part II. Medico-Legal Ascertainment of Personal Injury and Damage Under Civil-Tort Law: Continental Overview – Europe

5. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Portugal
Duarte Nuno Vieira

6. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Spain
Claudio Hernàndez-Cueto

7. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in France
Eric Baccino, Jean Sebastien Raul

8. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Italy
Ranieri Domenici

9. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Belgium
Yvo Vermylen, Katja Munnynck

10. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in the Netherlands
Jan Buitenhuis, Wout E. L. Boer

11. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in the United Kingdom
Peter Vanezis

12. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Germany
Vera Sterzik, Axel Muttray, Peter Weiß, Elisabeth Mützel

13. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Hungary
Eva Keller, Agnes Dósa, Andras Sarvary, Krisztian Csapó, Peter Banczerowski

14. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Lithuania
Romas Raudys

15. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Estonia
Marika Väli

Part III. Medico-legal Ascertainment of Personal Injury and Damage Under Civil-Tort Law: Continental Overview – America

16. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in the USA
Mohammed Ranavaya

17. Methods of Ascertainment of Dental Damage in Argentina
Marta Beatriz Maldonado

Part IV. Medico-legal Ascertainment of Personal Injury and Damage Under Civil-Tort Law: Continental Overview Africa

18. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Egypt
Dina A. Shokry

19. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Nigeria
William O. Odesanmi, Uwom O. Eze

Part V. Medico-legal Ascertainment of Personal Injury and Damage Under Civil-Tort Law: Continental Overview – Asia & Oceania

20. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Turkey
Mete Korkut Gulmen, Haluk Ince, Ahmet Hilal

21. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Osama Mohammed Al Madani, Manal S. Bamousa, Magdy A. Kharoshah

22. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in India
Adarsh Kumar

23. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in China
Ping Huang, Ya-hui Wang

24. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Japan
Toshiko Sawaguchi

25. Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Australia
George Mendelson, Danuta Mendelson

Part VI. International Overview and Epicrisis

26. International Overview on Dental Damage Compensation
Vilma Pinchi

27. International Comparative Epicrisis on the Ascertainment and Evaluation of Personal Injury and Damage
Guido Viel, Rafael Boscolo-Berto, Santo Davide Ferrara

Part VII. Methodology of Ascertainment and International Guidelines

28. Physical and Biomechanical Methods of Ascertainment
Luigi Cicinnati

29. Detection of Malingering in Personal Injury and Damage Ascertainment
Giuseppe Sartori, Graziella Orrù, Andrea Zangrossi

30. A Novel Methodology for the Objective Ascertainment of Psychic and Existential Damage
Santo Davide Ferrara, Viviana Ananian, Eric Baccino, Ranieri Domenici, Claudio Hernàndez-Cueto, George Mendelson, Gian Aristide Norelli, Mohammed Ranavaya, Claudio Terranova, Duarte Nuno Vieira, Guido Viel, Enrique Villanueva, Anna Chiara Zanuzzi, Riccardo Zoia, Giuseppe Sartori

31. International Guidelines on the Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Injury and Damage Under Civil-Tort Law
Santo Davide Ferrara, Eric Baccino, Rafael Boscolo-Berto, Giovanni Comandè, Ranieri Domenici, Claudio Hernàndez-Cueto, Mete Korkut Gulmen, George Mendelson, Massimo Montisci, Gian Aristide Norelli, Vilma Pinchi, Mohammed Ranavaya, Dina A. Shokry, Vera Sterzik, Yvo Vermylen, Duarte Nuno Vieira, Guido Viel, Riccardo Zoia

32. International Guidelines on the Methods of Ascertainment of Whiplash-Associated Disorders
Santo Davide Ferrara, Viviana Ananian, Eric Baccino, Peter Banczerowski, Daniele Bordignon, Rafael Boscolo-Berto, Ranieri Domenici, Javier Gorriz Quevedo, Matthias Graw, Wolfram Hell, Claudio Hernandez-Cueto, Peter Juel Thiis Knudsen, Stefano Masiero, Massimo Montisci, Gian Aristide Norelli, Vilma Pinchi, Romas Raudys, Jean Sebastien Raul, Vera Sterzik, Enrico Tessitore, Jana Tuusov, Peter Vanezis, Yvo Vermylen, Duarte Nuno Vieira, Guido Viel, Alessia Viero, Enrique Villanueva, Riccardo Zoia

Part VIII. Final Statements

33. Requirements and Final Recommendations
Santo Davide Ferrara, Rafael Boscolo-Berto, Guido Viel

Part IX. Iconography

34. Historical Iconography on Personal Injury and Damage from the “Vincenzo Pinali” Antique Medical Library
Santo Davide Ferrara, Guido Viel, Rafael Boscolo-Berto

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