{"title":"Personal injury losses","authors":"A. Burrows","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198705932.003.0015","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Personal injury includes disease and physical illness as well as, for example, cuts, bruises, broken bones, loss of limbs or loss of the use of limbs, blindness, deafness, and brain damage. Recognised psychiatric illnesses are included. Damages have also been awarded for the physical and mental effects of a rape or sexual assault.","PeriodicalId":273138,"journal":{"name":"Remedies for Torts, Breach of Contract, and Equitable Wrongs","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Remedies for Torts, Breach of Contract, and Equitable Wrongs","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198705932.003.0015","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Personal injury includes disease and physical illness as well as, for example, cuts, bruises, broken bones, loss of limbs or loss of the use of limbs, blindness, deafness, and brain damage. Recognised psychiatric illnesses are included. Damages have also been awarded for the physical and mental effects of a rape or sexual assault.