Rethinking Medical Negligence

This important monograph looks at the question of patient autonomy, and its relationship to the tort of negligence.

It tracks the historical development of that autonomy and its subsequent ideological promotion. It tracks how this development over the landscape of negligence has distorted conventional doctrines underpinning the duty of care, standard of care, and causation. It is a significant assessment of the impact of autonomy on medical negligence by a leading scholar in the field.