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Article: Responsibility for Drug-Induced Injury.(Review)
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- Trial
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 American Association for Justice, formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA®). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Responsibility for Drug-Induced Injury
Graham Dukes, Mark Mildred, and Barbara Swartz, eds. IOS Press, Inc. 5795-G Burke Center Pkwy. Burke, VA 22015 537pp., $125
This ambitious book purports to cram into 500-plus pages the entire law of drug-induced injuries--and not just U.S. law but that of the entire industrialized world. Because Responsibility for Drug-Induced Injury ranges widely but not deeply, it succeeds as an overview but fails as a useful working text for trial lawyers.
Consider the vast ground the book tries to cover. All the major players potentially at fault for a drug-induced injury--hospitals, physicians, nurses, drug ...