Medical Malpractice in Twentieth Century United States: The Interaction of Technology, Law, and Culture
Medical Malpractice in Twentieth Century United States: The Interaction of Technology, Law, and Culture
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二十世纪美国的医疗事故：技术、法律和文化的相互作用
DOI：
10.1017/s0266462300012198
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发表时间：
1998
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
K. D. De Ville
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作者：
K. D. De Ville
摘要尽管美国的医疗事故诉讼已经引起了专业和学术界的广泛关注，但很少有人对这一问题进行分析，探讨其根本原因。本文发展并采用了一个历史框架来解释世纪后期的现象，并得出结论认为，普遍的医疗事故诉讼是短期的主题原因和长期的文化变革相结合的结果，这些变革被大多数改革努力所忽视或忽视。然而，最重要的是，新的和改进的医疗技术的发展和扩散在整个诉讼史上发挥了关键作用，这种影响在20世纪的最后三分之一变得最为突出和重要。
Abstract Although medical malpractice litigation in the United States has generated extensive professional and scholarly attention, few analyses of the issue have explored its underlying causes. This essay develops and employs an historical framework to explain the late 20th century phenomenon and concludes that widespread medical malpractice suits are the result of a combination of short-term topical causes and long-term cultural changes that are ignored or left untouched by most reform efforts. Most importantly, however, the development and proliferation of new and improved medical technologies has played a pivotal role throughout the entire history of the litigation, an effect that has become most prominent and important in the last third of the 20th century.