Perceptions of medical practice: malpractice and the presumptions of medical practice, D.T. Ozar; what's so special about medicine?, D. Sulmasy; clinical loyalties and the social purposes of medicine, M.G. Bloche. Liability of medical practitioners: a fiduciary relationship? - the doctor as fiduciary, A. Grubb; confidentiality - the limits of medical confidence, L. Waller; standard of care - 100 years of harmful error - the historical jurisprudence of medical malpractice, T. Silver; medicine, accountability and professionalism, J. Montgomery; the Bolam test and the responsible expert, M.A. Jones; medical malpractice and the contract/tort boundary, P.S. Atiyah; medical malpractice implications of alternative medicine, D.M. Studdert et al; practice guidelines as legal standards governing physician liability, C.C. Havighurst; causation - causation, risk, and loss of chance in medical negligence, M. Stauch; informed consent - rethinking informed consent, P. Schuck; English medical law and "informed consent" - an antipodean assessment and alternative, P.D.G. Skegg; the powers of compassion - truth-telling among American doctors in the case of dying patient, N. Miyaji. Institutional liability: enterprise medical liability and the evolution of the American health care system, K.S. Abraham, P.C. Weiler. Social foundations of medical malpractice litigation: medical malpractice in 20th-century United States, the interaction of technology, law and culture, K. De Ville. Medical injury, litigation and compensation: an empirical analysis of accidents and accident law, T.A. Brennan. Perceptions of malpractice and malpractice litigation: physicians discourses on malpractice and the meaning of medical malpractice, T. Marjoribanks et al; why do people sue doctors? - a study of patients and relatives taking legal action, C. Vincent. Reform and future directions: alternative dispute resolution - adapting mediation to link resolution of medical malpractice disputes with health care quality improvement, E.A. Dauer, L.J. Marcus. (Part contents).
