Author: Richard Goldberg
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A comparative account of the scientific and legal issues related to proof of causation in alleged cases of drug-induced injury, principally in the UK, Europe, and North America. In four case studies (DES, Bondoctin, vaccine damage, and the Gulf War Syndrome) the authors argue that current methods towards causation could be improved by using probabilistic approaches that give greater weight to epidemiological statistics, as refined by the application of Bayes' Theorem. The economic implications of the proposals are discussed. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR