The interfaces of medicine and law : The history of the liability for negligently caused psychiatric injury ( nervous shock)

Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Table of Cases
Table of Statures
Introduction
I The Concept of Nervous Shock: the Common Law,
Witchcraft, and Medicine
2 Professor Erichsen and Shock Occasioned by Railway Collisions
3 Coultas v. Victorian Railway Commissioners and the Law
of Injury Consequential upon Fright
4 Legal Responses to the Coultas Decision
5 Traumatic Neurosis, Shell-Shock, and Nervous Shock
6 The 1930s: Donoghue v. Stevenson, the American Law of Emotional Distress, and
the case of an overturned coffin
7 Employees, Mothers and Liability for Nervous Shock in
Australia; Bystanders in the House of Lords
Hay or Bourhill v. Young
8 'Law, marching with medicine but at the rear and limping
a little' in the Post World War II Period
9 Jaensch v. Coffey and the New Notion of Proximity
10 Post 1984 Developments in Medical Science and Alcock
& Ors v. ChiefCol1stable of South Yorkshire Police :
11 Aspects of the Law Governing Recovery of Damages for
Mere Psychiatric Injury
12 Medical and Legal Developments in the Late 1990s: Not
Quite a Full Circle
Conclusion;
Bibliography;
Index