Overview
- Provides a general overview of the main features of civil and criminal liability
- Presents a mere description of the existing law and case law
- Helps lawmakers appreciate the strengths and weaknesses inherent to various systems
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 94)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Given the broad range of jurisdictions covered, the book offers lawmakers, health administrators and practitioners, both in law and medicine, an alternative approach to the delivery of health care. Further, it is essential reading for all those (academics, lawyers, judges, researchers, practicing doctors and those involved in the growing area of legal medicine) working in medical liability, specially in the Australasian context.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Roy G. Beran is trained as a consultant neurologist and accredited sleep physician, in addition to working within legal medicine, military medicine and aviation medicine. His qualifications include: MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRACGP, Grad. Dip. Tertiary Ed., Grad. Dip. Further Ed., FAFPHM, FACLM, FRCP, FAAN, FACBS, B Leg. S, MHL and FFFLM (Hon). He is registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a specialist in Neurology, Public Health and Sleep Medicine and is a Designated Medical Examiner for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority. He is a medical assessor for Dispute Resolution for the State Insurance Regulatory Authority and an assessor for the Workers Compensation Commission of New South Wales (NSW). He is a Conjoint Professor of Medicine at the University of NSW; Professor in the School of Medicine at Griffith University, Queensland; and Professor, Chair, Medical Law, Sechenov Moscow 1st State University, Moscow, Russia. He was the inaugural Visiting Professor at the International Research Institute of Health Law Sciences at the Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. He is: a founding Fellow of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine; a Past President of the College, having stepped down in 2011, while remaining on Council, and was awarded the second ever Honorary Life Fellowship of the College. In 2019 he was appointed as ‘Co-Head of Faculty’ to convene and co-ordinate the College’s training courses throughout Australia. He is the Australian Governor and was the Secretary General and remains a Vice President of the World Association for Medical Law (WAML), having served on the Organising Committee of numerous World Congresses on Medical Law, presided over the World Congress, in Sydney, in 2004, and successfully bid to host the World Congress to be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 2022. He was the first Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (London).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Medical Liability in Asia and Australasia
Editors: Vera Lúcia Raposo, Roy G. Beran
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4855-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-4854-0Published: 26 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-4857-1Published: 27 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-4855-7Published: 25 November 2021
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 308
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Medical Law, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law