The Concept of Iatrogenic Crimes and Problems with Their Investigation

Abstract

At present, professional misconduct of medical practitioners is paid much attention to. However, there is a lack of research into the content, importance of classification and stages of the relevant forensic activities of investigators. The specific nature of the iatrogenic crime is expressed in its «trace picture» and determines both the structure of forensic activity and the content of its separate stages. The purpose of this work is to develop provisions indicating the need of taking into account the peculiar material and ideal picture of the iatrogenic incident, and the study of the contents of investigator's activities at the initial stage of investigation. In order to achieve the above goal, the objectives of the study of the established approaches to the definition of iatrogenic crime were set and solved and on this basis, taking into account the «trace picture», of the iatrogenic incident, the examination of the forensic activity of the investigator, aimed, ultimately, at proving the causal relationship between the actions of the doctor and the consequences, called the «mechanism of the crime». The method of dialectical cognition, system-structural and system-functional methods, situational method, modeling method and other modern methods of scientific research constitute the methodological basis of the present work.