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Editorial - L. Bergemann / A. Frewer: The Right to Health and Responding to Adverse Events. Coming to Terms with Patients´ Rights and Vulnerability - 1. Discussion: Errors in Medicine and Ethics. Comments from International Perspectives - A. Frewer / K. W. Schmidt / L. Bergemann: Errors and Ethics in Medicine. International Case Studies - Patients´ Rights - "Inter-CEC" - J. C. Moskop: Medical Errors and Patient Safety: A U.S. Perspective - S. McLennan: The Handling of Medical Errors in New Zealand - K. Moodley: Medical Error: A South African Perspective - S. Babi c-Bosanac / A. Borove?cki: Medical Errors in Croatia - H. Ertin / ?I. ?Ilkili‡: The Changing Doctoring Preferences in Turkey Following the Changed Turkish Penal Code and Attitudes toward Medical Malpractice - G. Duttge: Errors in the German Patients´ Rights Law. Legal and Ethical Problems of the New Legislation - K. W. Schmidt: Errors, Guilt and Shame in Medicine. What We Can Learn from the Movies - L. Bergemann / K. W. Schmidt / A. Frewer: The Ethics of Medical Errors. Comparative Perspectives of the Case Studies on Six Countries - 2. Key Guidelines on Medical Errors - Harvard Hospitals of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors - When Things go Wrong. Responding to adverse events. A Consensus Statement - When Things go Wrong. In the Ambulatory Setting - A guide for education and practice; prepared in cooperation with the RISK Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Inc. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md. - German "Patients´ Rights Law". "Patientenrechtegesetz" (Readjustment 2013) - Authors with Addresses
With Support of the Research Group "Human Rights in Healthcare" (Emerging Fields Initiative), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

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Andreas Frewer, Prof. Dr. med., M.A. Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Dr. theol. Kurt W. Schmidt, Promotion im Fachbereich Systematik/Ethik in Heidelberg Ordination zum Pfarrer der EKHN, Klinische Seelsorge-Ausbildung (KSA) Leitung des Zentrums fur Ethik in der Medizin (ZEM) am Agaplesion Markus Krankenhaus, Frankfurt/M. PD Dr. phil. Lutz Bergemann, 2010 Habilitation im Fach Philosophie an der Westälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster Seit 2011 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Professur für Ethik in der Medizin am Institut für Geschichte und Ethik in der Medizin der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

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