Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America by Kenneth De Ville (9780814718483)

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It was in the 1840s that Americans first began to sue physicians on a wide scale. The unprecedented wave of litigation that began in this decade disrupted professional relations, injured individual reputations, and burdened physicians with legal fees and damage awards. De Ville's account discusses this outbreak of malpractice litigation with the use of anecdotes.

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Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America

Origins and Legacy

Kenneth De Ville

R. B. Freeman

Description - Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America by Kenneth De Ville

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