1st Edition
Criminalising Medical Malpractice A Comparative Perspective
Chapter 1: Introduction;
Chapter 2: Healthcare negligence in French and English criminal law;
Chapter 3: Criminal proceedings for healthcare negligence in France and England and Wales;
Chapter 4: Contaminated blood: a tale of two scandals;
Chapter 5: Is criminal law the answer to individual healthcare negligence?;
Chapter 6: Institutions in the dock and alternatives to the criminal process;
Chapter 7: Conclusion;
Biography
Mélinée Kazarian is a lecturer in law at the University of Southampton. Mélinée's research interests are in medico-legal, criminal and comparative law issues, in particular the question of the criminalisation of negligence in the common law and civil law traditions. She has published widely on recent medico-legal debates, focusing on a comparative analysis of French and English criminal responses to healthcare scandals. She has been involved in different research projects which aimed to offer a comprehensive analysis of the role of the criminal justice system in regulating healthcare practice and ethics in the UK.
