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Subject(s)

• Prisoners—Medical care—United States [Browse]

Series

• Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC) [More in this series]
• Criminal Justice

Summary note

Contrary to the ideal set up in Estelle v. Gamble (1976), inmates' medical needs were infrequently recognized by state courts and normally rejected through the examination of the two-pronged standard. Tsai contributes to existing literature by examining inadequate medical care and medical malpractice litigation against prison and jail physicians who have been sued in state courts by inmates during the past decade. By classifying the treatment actions or inactions that led inmates to file for civil remedies and examining the negative health outcomes that resulted from physicians' actions and in

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Chapter introduction
• Review of medical misconduct
• Methods of legal research
• State case analysis
• Civil liability for inefficacious correctional medical care
• Cases cited
• References
• Index
• Notes.

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ISBN

1-59332-783-8

OCLC

885123437

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