Health and sports law collide: Do professional athletes have an unfettered choice to accept risk of HARM?

Medicine and Law

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Berger, Ken J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assumption of risk; Health law; Sports law; Torts; Waivers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; RISK; SPORT INJURY; SPORTS MEDICINE;

ATHLETES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; HUMANS; RISK; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 79957782655     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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