Griffith Richard
School of Health Science, Swansea University.
Br J Community Nurs. 2006 Sep;11(9):396-401. doi: 10.12968/bjcn.2006.11.9.21763.
District nurses will be well aware that if a person receives an injury because of someone else's negligence they are entitled to compensation for the harm that has been caused. However, where the injury is in the form of psychiatric harm the law has traditionally imposed rules that set out the conditions to be met before a successful claim for damages can be made. Even in today's enlightened society the law still does not always treat a psychiatric injury in the same way as a physical injury. In this article Richard Griffith outlines the development of the law in relation to psychiatric injury--historically called "nervous shock"--and considers the current approach to claims for damages where a person suffers psychiatric harm because of another's negligent act.
地区护士很清楚，如果一个人因他人的疏忽而受伤，那么他有权就所遭受的伤害获得赔偿。然而，当伤害表现为精神损害时，法律传统上规定了一些规则，阐明了成功索赔损害赔偿之前必须满足的条件。即使在当今开明的社会，法律对精神伤害的处理方式仍不总是与身体伤害相同。在本文中，理查德·格里菲斯概述了与精神伤害（历史上称为“精神休克”）相关的法律发展，并探讨了在一个人因他人的疏忽行为而遭受精神伤害时，目前对损害赔偿索赔的处理方式。
