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European medical law and bioethics

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Course ID: 2200-1CWPC96-ERA
Erasmus code / ISCED: 10.0 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0421) Law The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: European medical law and bioethics
Name in Polish: European medical law and bioethics
Organizational unit: Faculty of Law and Administration
Course groups: Erasmus+
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 5.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language: English
Type of course:

elective monographs
Mode:

Classroom
Short description:

The lecture presents basic institutions of the European Medical Law in particular the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, EU-law and patients’ rights. A case law of the European and national courts is analysed.
Full description:

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

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.
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 methods and assessment criteria:

- attendance register

- continues assessment

Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span: 2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16
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Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Leszek Bosek
Group instructors: Leszek Bosek, Agnieszka Nogal
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Grading

Classes in period "Summer semester 2024/25" (future)

Time span: 2025-02-17 - 2025-06-08
Selected timetable range:
Navigate to timetable
Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Leszek Bosek
Group instructors: Leszek Bosek, Agnieszka Nogal
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Grading
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