Responsibility for Medical Crimes During the Birth and Heyday of the Russian Empire
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Abstract: The recognition of medicine as one of the basic components of a developed state has led to a significant intensification of the legal regulation of the activities of doctors, including their responsibility, both for making mistakes and for intentionally causing harm. The period of the birth of the Russian Empire became the starting point for the systematic normative consolidation of the corresponding conceptual apparatus, the definition of lawful and criminal actions of medical personnel, as well as the establishment of criminal liability for unacceptable forms of behavior. A significant part of the legal sources of this era contains prototypes of modern provisions of the criminal law. In this connection, this article will conduct a comparative historical and legal study of the features of the legislative regulation of liability for medical crimes.

Khamkov M.V. Responsibility for Medical Crimes During the Birth and Heyday of the Russian Empire // Gaps in Russian Legislation. 2023. Vol. 16. №5. Pp. 433-437. (in Russ.). EDN: BBFSQQ

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