European medical law and bioethics 2200-1CWPC96-ERA
The lecture presents basic institutions of the European Medical Law in particular the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, EU-Law and Patients’ Rights. Analysis of case law of European and national courts in medical cases will be carried out. In particular the following issues will be taught:
1. Methodology of Medical Law and sources of Medical Law
2. Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
3. EU-Medical Law
4. Consent to medical intervention
5. Genetics and status of human body
6. Transplantation
7. Research on humans
8. Patients’ rights – regulatory schemes in Europe
9. Systems and grounds of compensatory liability in medical cases
10. Prerequsites of compensatory liablity
11. Wrongful life claims
12. Assisted procreation
13. Assisted suicide and euthanasia
14. Transsexualism
15. Credits
Type of course
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Learning outcomes
Student will:
- present knowleadge of the institutions of European medical law,
- be able to analyze case law in medical cases
- recognise European legal instruments and bioethical standards
Assessment criteria
- attendance register
- continues assessment
Bibliography
1. L. Bosek (ed.), MEDICAL LAW, C.H.BECK 2019.
2. M. Safjan (ed), Zb. Banaszczyk, M. Boratyńska, W. Borysiak, L. Bosek, B. Janiszewska, P. Sobolewski, Medical Law. Cases and Commentaries, Warsaw 2010.
3. T. Beauchamp, L. Walters, J. Kahn, A. Mastroianni, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, Belmont 2008;
4. T. Hervey, J. McHale, Health Law and the European Union, Cambridge 2004.
5. Sh. Pattison, Medical law and ethics, London 2006.
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