chapter 1 Putting Medical Error in Context: Minimizing Errors in Medicine—Beyond the “Oops!” Factor -- chapter 2 The Valued Legacy of Error and Harm in General: Error and Harm across General Human Experience in Nonmedical Domains—Welcome to Lathology -- chapter 3 Error and Harm in Health Sciences: Defining and Classifying Human Error and Its Consequences in Clinical and Community Settings -- chapter 4 Describing Medical Error and Harm: Their Occurrence and Nature in Clinical and Community Settings -- chapter 5 Analyzing Medical Error and Harm: Searching for Their Causes and Consequences -- chapter 6 Flaws in Operator Reasoning and Decision Making Underlying Medical Error and Harm -- chapter 7 Prevention, Intervention, and Control of Medical Error and Harm: Clinical Epidemiological Considerations of Actions and Their Evaluation -- chapter 8 Taking Medical Error and Harm to Court: Contributions and Expectations of Physicians in Tort Litigation and Legal Decision Making.