Nordic health law in a European context
Subtitle: welfare state perspectives on patients' rights and biomedicine
By: Elisabeth Rynning & Mette Hartlev (eds.).
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff; Liber
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Malmö, Sweden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9789004223806; 9789147097487
Subjects: Patients; Medical laws and legislation; Legal status, laws
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Health and human rights in the European context / Henriette D.C. Roscam Abbing; title: Right to health as a human right in Europe / Matti Mikkola; title: The raison d'être of Nordic health law / Mette Hartlev; title: The right to health from a constitutional perspective : the example of the Nordic countries / Anna-Sara Lind; title: Health law as a legal discipline / Helle Bødker Madsen; title: The Nordic Committee on Bioethics / Sirpa Soini; title: The development of patients' rights in Norway / Asbjørn Kjønstad; title: Still no patients' act in Sweden : reasons and implications / Elisabeth Rynning; title: Human rights, health care, and coercion in Norwegian health law / Aslak Syse; title: Detention of pregnant women to protect the foetus : Nordiv [i.e. Nordic] perspectives / Karl Harald Søvig; title: Cultural accommodation in health services and European human rights / Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir; title: Female genital mutilation and the right to privacy : a double-edged sword / Henriettte Sindig Aasen; title: Infant male circumcision : Finnish Supreme Court ruling on a multicultural legal protection / Raimo Lahti; title: Mutual recognition within the EU of the concepts of sickness and incapacity for work in a rehabilitative situation / Lotta Vahlne Westerhäll; title: Human dignity as a legal argument in the era of modern biomedicine / Laura Walin; title: European integration : a case example from European biomedical research law / Sigmund Simonsen; title: The human body and Norwegian property law : ancient and modern / Marit Halvorsen; title: Biobank regulation in Finland and the Nordic countries / Salla Sivola; title: Genetic privacy : autonomy or solidarity? / Line Bune Juhl; title: Death before life : the legal status of cadaveric foetuses / Janne Rothmar Herrmann.