Personal injury and damage ascertainment under civil law : state-of-the-art international guidelines /: state-of-the-art international guidelines. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editor, Santo Davide Ferrara ; co-editors, Rafael Boscolo-Berto, Viel, Guido.
• Editors: Ferrara, S. D (Santo Davide); Boscolo-Berto, Rafael; Viel, Guido
• Contents: Foreword; Preface; References; Contents; List of Contributors; Part I: Juridical and Methodological Overview; Chapter 1: Bio-Medicolegal Sciences and Personal Injury/Damage Ascertainment in the Post-Genomic Era; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 ``Omics ́́Technologies; 1.3 Functional Brain Neuroimaging; 1.4 Optical Coherence Tomography and Frequency Domain Imaging; 1.5 Photoacoustic Tomography; 1.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 2: The Holistic and Systematic Approach in Legal Medicine; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Causal Value and Causal Link; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Principles of Truth and Cause. 3.3 Juridical Construction, Evidence, and Medicine3.4 ``Conditio Sine Qua ́́and Scientific Laws; 3.5 From the Theory to the Practice of Specific Causality; References; Chapter 4: Compensation for Personal Injury in a Comparative Perspective: The Need to Bridge Legal and Medicolegal Knowledge; 4.1 An Introduction to Different Languages; 4.2 Contrasting Oppositions: The Example of Common Law Countries; 4.3 Awarding Methods: Convergencies and Divergencies in European Jurisdictions; 4.3.1 The English Way to Intangible Loss; 4.3.2 German Tables and Descriptions. 4.3.3 A Franco-Italian Approach to Scheduling4.3.4 The Italian Search for a Synthesis; 4.3.5 Judicial Scheduling: The European Way; 4.4 When Conclusions Impose Further Research; References; Part II: Medico-Legal Ascertainment of Personal Injury and Damage Under Civil-Tort Law: Continental Overview -- Europe; Chapter 5: Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Portugal; 5.1 Historical, Judicial, and Juridical Overview; 5.2 Description of Medicolegal Expertś Qualifications; 5.3 Ascertainment Methodology; 5.3.1 Collection of Circumstantial and Clinical Data; 5.3.2 Medical Case History. 5.3.3 Systematic Clinical and Medicolegal Visit5.3.4 Additional Investigations; 5.4 Evaluation Criteria; 5.4.1 Personal Injury Identification; 5.4.2 Temporary Impairment; 5.4.3 Permanent Impairment; 5.4.4 Causal Value/Link Between Event, Injury and Impairment; 5.4.5 Quantum for Temporary and Permanent Impairment (Disability Rate); 5.4.6 Other Pecuniary and Non-pecuniary Losses; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Methods of Ascertainment of Personal Damage in Spain; 6.1 Historical, Judicial, and Juridical Overview; 6.2 Identification and Description of Medicolegal Expertś Qualifications. 6.3 Ascertainment Methodology6.3.1 Collection of Circumstantial and Clinical Data; 6.3.2 Medical Case History; 6.3.3 Systematic Clinical and Medicolegal Visit; 6.3.4 Additional Investigations; 6.4 Evaluation Criteria; 6.4.1 Psychic and Somatic State Prior to the Event/Injury; 6.4.2 Detailed Reconstruction of the Event/Injury; 6.4.3 Personal Injury; 6.4.4 Temporary Impairment; 6.4.5 Permanent Impairment; 6.4.6 Causal Value/Link; 6.4.7 Personal Damage Quantification; 6.4.8 Non-Pecuniary Losses; 6.4.9 Pecuniary Losses; Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 346.0323; Medicine; Personal injuries; Medical jurisprudence; Civil law; LAW -- Personal Injury; LAW -- Civil Law; Civil law; Medical jurisprudence; Personal injuries; Medical -- Forensic Medicine; Law -- Civil Law; Forensic medicine; Civil codes / Civil law; Forensic medicine; Forensic science; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319298122; 3319298127
• Related ISBNs: 9783319298108; 3319298100
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 13, 2016).
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