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Pharmacy Practice and Tort Law / Fred G Weissman, Jim Pinder, Mark R Berns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weissman, Fred G., ath.
- Series:
- McGraw-Hill's AccessPharmacy.
- McGraw-Hill's AccessPharmacy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmacists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., c2016.
- Summary:
- Intends to help pharmacy students better understand the concepts of tort law and apply it to their own experiences. Focusing on the civil liabilities a pharmacist may face in real-world practice, this book describes each tort in detail, outlining the elements that must be proven for successful litigation.
- Contents:
- Introduction to tort law and its relevance to the practice of pharmacy
- "Briefing" : a tort law case
- Intentional torts encountered in pharmacy practice
- Background to negligence in pharmacy practice : elements of negligence (part I)
- Negligence (part II) : duty and breach of duty
- Negligence (part II) : causation and injury
- Negligence (part III) : defenses
- Negligence (part IV) : remedies
- Negligence (part V) : miscellaneous categories : vicarious and premise liability
- Defamation
- Invasion of privacy and issues pertaining to confidentiality
- Intentional interference with business relations
- Fraud and negligent misrepresentation
- Products liability (part I) : general principles
- Products liability (part II) : case presentations.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 1-259-64096-5
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