Simon Taylor is a senior lecturer at the Université Paris Diderot. He also teaches at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and at the University of Bergamo, Italy. A member of the Sorbonne Institute of Legal Research and the Groupe de Recherche Européenne sur la Responsabilité Civile et l'Assurance, he is a contributor to projects for the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, Vienna.

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• Introduction; 1. The state of medical accident liability and redress in England; 2. Medical accident liability and redress in France: a comparative analysis; 3. Differing cultures of civil liability; 4. The cost of medical accident redress; 5. Problems posed by the French Administrative Compensation Scheme; 6. Shaping the doctor-patient relationship through civil liability law; 7. Medical accident liability and redress: promoting patient safety?; General conclusion.

Simon Taylor is a senior lecturer at the Université Paris Diderot. He also teaches at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and at the University of Bergamo, Italy. A member of the Sorbonne Institute of Legal Research and the Groupe de Recherche Européenne sur la Responsabilité Civile et l'Assurance, he is a contributor to projects for the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, Vienna.

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• Introduction; 1. The state of medical accident liability and redress in England; 2. Medical accident liability and redress in France: a comparative analysis; 3. Differing cultures of civil liability; 4. The cost of medical accident redress; 5. Problems posed by the French Administrative Compensation Scheme; 6. Shaping the doctor-patient relationship through civil liability law; 7. Medical accident liability and redress: promoting patient safety?; General conclusion.

Simon Taylor is a senior lecturer at the Université Paris Diderot. He also teaches at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and at the University of Bergamo, Italy. A member of the Sorbonne Institute of Legal Research and the Groupe de Recherche Européenne sur la Responsabilité Civile et l'Assurance, he is a contributor to projects for the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, Vienna.

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• Introduction; 1. The state of medical accident liability and redress in England; 2. Medical accident liability and redress in France: a comparative analysis; 3. Differing cultures of civil liability; 4. The cost of medical accident redress; 5. Problems posed by the French Administrative Compensation Scheme; 6. Shaping the doctor-patient relationship through civil liability law; 7. Medical accident liability and redress: promoting patient safety?; General conclusion.