Genetic Disability and Legal Action: Wrongful Birth, Wrongful Life
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2003
Publication Title
Encyclopedia of the Human Genome
Keywords
genetic defect, wrongful birth, wrongful life, professional negligence
Abstract
Parents of children born with birth defects can successfully sue health professionals for the tort of wrongful birth if they can claim that the child's birth was due to the negligence of the professional. The tort of wrongful life stems from the same series of events, but is brought by the child rather than the parent.
ISBN
470016183
Repository Citation
Dena S. Davis, Genetic Disability and Legal Action: Wrongful Birth, Wrongful Life, in 2 Encyclopedia of the Human Genome 804-806 (D. N. Cooper, ed., Nature Publishing Group 2003)
