Law and Contemporary Problems

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Foreword

John M. Conley

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Scientific Ignorance and Reliable Patterns of Evidence in Toxic Tort Causation: Is There a Need for Liability Reform?

Carl F. Cranor and David A. Eastmond

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The Swine Flu Vaccine and Guillain-Barré Syndrome: A Case Study in Relative Risk and Specific Causation

David A. Freedman and Philip B. Stark

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Scientific Models of Human Health Risk Analysis in Legal and Policy Decisions

Douglas Crawford-Brown

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Causation and the Law: Preemption, Lawful Sufficiency, and Causal Sufficiency

Richard Fumerton and Ken Kress

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The Admissibility of Differential Diagnosis Testimony to Prove Causation in Toxic Tort Cases: The Interplay of Adjective and Substantive Law

Joseph Sanders and Julie Machal-Fulks

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Assessing Causation in Breast Implant Litigation: The Role of Science Panels

Laural L. Hooper, Joe S. Cecil, and Thomas E. Willging

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Too Many Probabilities: Statistical Evidence of Tort Causation

David W. Barnes

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Of Cherries, Fudge, and Onions: Science and Its Courtroom Perversion

David W. Peterson and John M. Conley

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The Relation Between Counterfactual (“But For”) and Causal Reasoning: Experimental Findings and Implications for Jurors’ Decisions

Barbara A. Spellman and Alexandra Kincannon

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Causation, Contribution, and Legal Liability: An Empirical Study

Lawrence M. Solan and John M. Darley

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Rationalism and Empiricism in Modern Medicine

Warren Newton

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Culture and Causality: Non-Western Systems of Explanation

William M. O'Barr

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