Medical Negligence Claims in Sri Lanka (English) (Hardcover)

What are medical negligence claims really about? Although the legal definition of “medical negligence” involves the failure of healthcare service providers to exercise a standard of due care, empirical findings from a qualitative case study set in Sri Lanka demonstrate that medical negligence claims do not straightforwardly represent the same concern. This is primarily because each such claim is a singular episode which is caught in the midst of a dynamic dispute journey and is, therefore, part of a larger process involving its participants’ understandings of, explanations of, and responses to healthcare experiences.The book explores and explains the complex presence/ absence of concerns about healthcare service standards within the medical negligence claims landscape in Sri Lanka.

About The Author

Dr. Avanti Perera

Dr. Avanti Perera is a Senior State Counsel at the Attorney General’s Department of Sri Lanka. Having completed her studies at Sri Lanka Law College, she was admitted to the Bar in 2000. Thereafter, Avanti graduated with a LL.M. (Hons.) Degree in International Law from the University of Cambridge and a D.Phil. Degree in Law from the University of Oxford. She also holds a B.A. (First Class) Degree in English from the University of Colombo.