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Holding Health Care Accountable: Law and the New Medical Marketplace
After reviewing the inadequacies of current tort and contract law, this title proposes that an intelligent assignment of legal liability must rest on an intelligent division of labour between health plans and providers, beginning with the question "who should be doing what, for the best delivery of health care."
| Author(s) | By E. Haavi Morreim. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 336 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 20 Sept 2001 |
| Availability | POD |
After reviewing the inadequacies of current tort and contract law, this title proposes that an intelligent assignment of legal liability must rest on an intelligent division of labour between health plans and providers, beginning with the question "who should be doing what, for the best delivery of health care."
PART I: JURISPRUDENTIAL PROBLEMS; PART II: ADDRESSING THE PROBLEMS: RESHAPING LEGAL STANDARDS; PART III: ASSESSING THE PROPOSED APPROACH: PROSPECTS FOR JUDICIAL ACCEPTANCE
E. Haavi Morreim is a Professor in the College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis. For twenty years her research and writing have explored medicine's changing economics, with numerous publications in journals of law, medicine, and ethics.
