Title: Nordic health law in a European context : welfare state perspectives on patients' rights and biomedicine /
Authors: Rynning, Elisabeth.; Hartlev, Mette.
Publisher: M. Nijhoff Publishers ; Liber,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Social Welfare; Legislation, Medical; Patient Rights; Medical laws and legislation Scandinavia.; Right to health Scandinavia.; Medical care Law and legislation Scandinavia.; Patients Legal status, laws, etc. Scandinavia.; Medicine Research Law and legislation Scandinavia.; Medical laws and legislation Europe.; Right to health Europe.; Patients Legal status, laws, etc. Europe.; Medicine Research Law and legislation Europe.; Medical laws and legislation European Union countries.; Patients Legal status, laws, etc. European Union countries.; Patient Rights Scandinavian and Nordic Countries.; Legislation, Medical Scandinavian and Nordic Countries.; Social Welfare Scandinavian and Nordic Countries.; Scandinavian and Nordic Countries; Scandinavian and Nordic Countries
Contents: Health and human rights in the European context / Henriette D.C. Roscam Abbing -- Right to health as a human right in Europe / Matti Mikkola -- The raison d'être of Nordic health law / Mette Hartlev -- The right to health from a constitutional perspective : the example of the Nordic countries / Anna-Sara Lind -- Health law as a legal discipline / Helle Bødker Madsen -- The Nordic Committee on Bioethics / Sirpa Soini -- The development of patients' rights in Norway / Asbjørn Kjønstad -- Still no patients' act in Sweden : reasons and implications / Elisabeth Rynning -- Human rights, health care, and coercion in Norwegian health law / Aslak Syse -- Detention of pregnant women to protect the foetus : Nordiv [i.e. Nordic] perspectives / Karl Harald Søvig -- Cultural accommodation in health services and European human rights / Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir -- Female genital mutilation and the right to privacy : a double-edged sword / Henriette Sinding Aasen -- Infant male circumcision : Finnish Supreme Court ruling on a multicultural legal protection / Raimo Lahti -- Mutual recognition within the EU of the concepts of sickness and incapacity for work in a rehabili[ta]tive situation / Lotta Vahlne Westerhäll -- Human dignity as a legal argument in the era of modern biomedicine / Laura Walin -- European integration : a case example from European biomedical research law / Sigmund Simonsen -- The human body and Norwegian property law : ancient and modern / Marit Halvorsen -- Biobank regulation in Finland and the Nordic countries / Salla Silvola -- Genetic privacy : autonomy or solidarity? / Line Bune Juhl -- Death before life : the legal status of cadaveric foetuses / Janne Rothmar Herrmann.