Suicide and Civil Litigation
- 1 April 1974
- journal article
- Published by ASTM International in Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Vol. 19 (2) , 261-266
- https://doi.org/10.1520/jfs10170j
Abstract
The responsibility of hospitals and physicians for suicide prevention continues to be a major problem confronting the health care professions. Suicide induced litigation was reviewed in 1960 and 1965 [1,2] and my purpose now is to bring up to date some of the conflicting issues characteristic of this problem.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Suicide PredictionSuicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1972
- On the Justifications for Civil CommitmentUniversity of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1968
- Civil Commitment of the Mentally Ill: Theories and ProceduresHarvard Law Review, 1966
- LIABILITY OF HOSPITAL AND PSYCHIATRIST IN SUICIDEAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1965
- Detection of suicidal patients: An example of some limitations in the prediction of infrequent events.Journal of Consulting Psychology, 1954