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After a brief historical overview on the role of clinical and forensic medicine in personal injury compensation, the chapter presents a critical comparative epicrisis on the ascertainment and evaluation of personal injury and damage under civil/tort law in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, China, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the UK and the USA. The diverse logical, methodological and criteriological phases of the ascertainment and the medicolegal evaluation of the injury, impairment, disability and any other pecuniary/non-pecuniary loss causally related to the damaging event are critically analysed and discussed. The final part of the chapter summarises the data and evidences discussed in Parts 1 and 6 of the monograph and sheds light on the necessary evolution and investments of bio-medicolegal sciences for keeping in line with postmodernity.
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Viel, G., Boscolo-Berto, R., Ferrara, S.D. (2016). International Comparative Epicrisis on the Ascertainment and Evaluation of Personal Injury and Damage. In: Ferrara, S., Boscolo-Berto, R., Viel, G. (eds) Personal Injury and Damage Ascertainment under Civil Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29812-2_27
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