Medical Negligence Claims in Sri Lanka

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.