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When Life Itself Becomes a Lawsuit: Thalidomide and the Birth of Modern Medical Liability

15 October 2025 by Chirag Vora

The Human Question Behind the Legal One Few legal questions are as haunting as those born from medicine’s mistakes. When a drug meant to ease pregnancy causes deformities in the unborn, law must answer the unthinkable: Can a child sue for being … Read more

Categories Health, Pharmaceutical Law & Regulation Tags Bioethics, Birth Defects Litigation, Contergan Case, Defective Drugs, Drug Liability, Drug Regulation History, Drug Safety Law, Informed Consent, Kefauver Harris Amendments, Learned Intermediary Doctrine, Manufacturer’s Duty to Warn, Medical Malpractice, Medical Negligence, Parental Injury, Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence, Pharmaceutical Negligence, Pharmacolegal Case Studies, Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacy and Law, Phocomelia, Prenatal Injury Law, Prenatal Rights, Product Liability, Thalidomide, Thalidomide Trust, Tort Law, Wrongful Birth, Wrongful Life Leave a comment

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