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Readings on Legal Issues in Medicine

  • 1776 - Opération césarienne
  • 1777 - Médecin accusé d'avoir fait un enfant à une jeune sage-femme
  • 1780 - Question intéressante sur un accouchement
  • 1821 - CAPURON - La médecine légale, relative à l'art des accouchemens
  • 1832 - ROLPH - Case of unskilled use of instruments during labour
  • 1842 - Verdict of manslaughter against a medical assistant
  • 1842 - Another case of negligence of a midwife
  • 1844 - Charge of manslaughter against a person practising as a surgeon
  • 1845 - Forcible removal of the uterus and intestines in a parturient woman
  • 1846 - Malpractice in midwifery
  • 1848 - MOORE - Malpractice of a midwife using chloroform during labour
  • 1849 - de JUMNÉ - Une parturition laborieuse et la commission médicale
  • 1849 - Committal of a midwife for manslaughter
  • 1850 - WHITE v LOOMIS slander trial concerning demonstrative midwifery
  • 1853 - Surgeon committed for manslaughter
  • 1860 - STONE v FISHER: the great medical slander suit
  • 1864 - LEFEVER - COLYER v EBBERT: trial for malpractice
  • 1865 - STORER - A medico-legal study of rape
  • 1870 - Chronic inversion of the uterus as ground for a suit for malpractice
  • 1871 - HUNTER v OGDEN: suit for breach of contract to attend birth
  • 1871 - Relations of the physician to his patients
  • 1871 - EDITORIAL - A case of manslaughter against a physician
  • 1871 - SCOTT - Factitious suits for malpractice
  • 1872 - CLARK - ANDERSON v WALKER: involving inversion of the uterus
  • 1875 - HICKS - The risks of obstetric practice
  • 1878 - EDITORIAL - An outrageous suit for malpractice
  • 1879 - EDITORIAL - Doctors' dangers
  • 1879 - EDITORIAL - Suits for malpractice: an epidemic in the State of NY
  • 1879 - EDITORIAL - Rare cause of lawsuit
  • 1880 - EDITORIAL - The law of slander as applicable to physicians
  • 1882 - HAYES v MACLEAN: Recto-vaginal fistula
  • 1884 - WILSON - Foreign bodies left in the abdomen after laparotomy
  • 1889 - ELLINWOOD - Malpractice suits
  • 1890 - DRAPER - The legal relations of obstetrics
  • 1890 - POTTER - Medico-legal status of the abdominal surgeon
  • 1890 - VANDERVERR-WILE - The medico-legal aspect of abdominal section
  • 1895 - GOODELL - The anatomy of rape
  • 1896 - KIRKLEY - Liability to prosecution in abdominal surgery
  • 1898 - Prior removal of ovaries ground for annuling marriage
  • 1900 - EDITORIAL - Organization for medical defense
  • 1913 - BARBOUR - Legal aspects pertaining to the medical profession
  • 1913 - CULBERTSON - Medical men and the law
  • 1914 - Responsibility for malpractice of partners and substitutes
  • 1914 - POTTER - Legal medicine
  • 1917 - EDITORIAL - A blood money epidemic
  • 1917 - A collection of medico-legal cases
  • 1920 - CROSSEN - Medico-Legal Points in GYN Surgery
  • 1925 - Inference of negligence in repair of the perineum
  • 1925 - Joint liability of surgeons in sponge case
  • 1925 - WHITESIDE - Retained placenta-puerperal sepsis-death
  • 1931 - Failure to remove placenta
  • 1931 - Injury to bladder in removal of cervix
  • 1931 - Sponge left in vagina after childbirth
  • 1932 - ILL - The legal responsibility of the gynecologist
  • 1935 - MARTLAND - The reporting of medicolegal cases by surgeons
  • 1951 - Medical group probes claim doctors refused night call

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