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Substandard medical care in U.S. prisons : improvement through civil liability actions / Lily Chi-Fang Tsai.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tsai, Lily Chi-Fang, 1981- author.
- Series:
- Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- Criminal Justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--Medical care--United States.
- Prisoners.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso, Texas : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781593327835
- 1593327838
- OCLC:
- 885123437
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