Human rights and biomedicine
By: edited by André den Exter
Publisher: Maklu
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Antwerpen; Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9789046602966
Subjects: Law and legislation; Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine; Medical laws and legislation; Congresses; Human experimentation in medicine; Right to health
Notes: "...lectures of an international conference on human rights and biomedicine, held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 10-12 December 2008 and organised by the Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the Erasmus Observatory on Health Law"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The biomedicine convention / André den Exter; title: pt. 1. Setting the scene: human rights and health ethics. Dwelling on the threshold: on the interaction between the European Convention on human rights and the Biomedicine convention / Rick Lawson; title: Promoting and applying bioethics: the ethics programme of UNESCO / Henk ten Have; title: Universal principles and universal rights / Tom Beauchamp; title: pt. 2. Equitable access to health care. Equality and the right to health care / Martin Biujsen and André den Exter; title: The right to health care for vulnerable population groups in the Netherlands and Europe / Walter Devillé; title: pt. 3. Medical research. Appropriate regulations for different types of medical research / Elmar Doppelfeld; title: Regulatory discrepancies between the Council of Europe and the EU regarding biomedical research / Roberto Andorno; title: pt. 4. Genetics and health care rights. Recent developments in the legal discourse on genetic testing in Germany / Jürgen Robienski and Jürgen Simon; title: pt. 5. Patients rights. Patients' rights and human dignity / Carlos Romeo Casabona; title: Patient rights in the United States: beyond or behind the Convention / Tim Stoltzfus Jost; title: Protection of persons not able to consent: a feminist view / Hilde Lindemann; title: pt. 6. Organ transplantation. Legal protection of the deceased organ donor in Europe / Herman Nys; title: Organ donation from brain-dead donors: a dead end street / Erwin Kompanje; title: Contributors; title: About the Erasmus Observatory on Health Law; title: Annex: Convention for the protection of human rights and dignity of the human being with regard to the application of biology and medicine: convention on human rights and biomedicine.