Al-Mas'uliyah Al-Jina'iyah Lil-Atibba', Dirasah Muqaranah

Abstract

The book consists of an introduction that provides an historical overview of the medical profession and a preliminary chapter on the reality and nature of medical work. It includes six main chapters: physicians? criminal liability in the rulings of Islamic sharia; physicians? criminal liability emanating from malpractice according to both Egyptian and French legislation; judicial classifications of errors in the different stages of medical work; physicians? criminal liability in cases of refusal to offer medical treatment; physicians? criminal liability in cases involving abortion and forging medical certificates; and physicians? liability emanating from the use of modern scientific techniques in the medical field.