Legal Causation and Responsibility for Causing Harm
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 95 (S1) , S35-S38
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2005.061820
Abstract
In the legal setting, "cause" is composed of at least two distinct components, of which only one is related to "causality" as scientists understand it. I argue that the alleged separation of the social issue of "scope of responsibility" from the objective question of scientific causality is illusory. "Scientific causality" also plays an essential social role in the legal setting.Keywords
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