Description du livre
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient volume provides comprehensive analysis of the law affecting the physician-patient relationship in Luxembourg. Cutting across the traditional compartments with which lawyers are familiar, medical law is concerned with issues arising from this relationship, and not with the many wider juridical relations involved in the broader field of health care law.
After a general introduction, the book systematically describes law related to the medical profession, proceeding from training, licensing, and other aspects of access to the profession, through disciplinary and professional liability and medical ethics considerations and quality assurance, to such aspects of the physician-patient relationship as rights and duties of physicians and patients, consent, privacy, and access to medical records. Also covered are specific issues such as organ transplants, human medical research, abortion, and euthanasia, as well as matters dealing with the physician in relation to other health care providers, health care insurance, and the health care system.
Succinct and practical, this book will prove to be of great value to professional organizations of physicians, nurses, hospitals, and relevant government agencies. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Luxembourg will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its comparative value as a contribution to the study of medical law in the international context.
Table des matières
The Authors
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Chapter 1. General Background of the Country
Chapter 2. General Description of the Healthcare System
Chapter 3. Sources of Medical Law
Part I. The Medical Profession
Chapter 1. Access to the Medical Profession
Chapter 2. Practice of Medicine
Chapter 3. Illegal Practice of Medicine
Chapter 4. Control over the Practice of Medicine
Part II. The Physician-Patient Relationship
Chapter 1. General Rights and Obligations of the Patient
Chapter 2. Medical Secrecy, Confidentiality and Data Protection
Chapter 3. End-of-Life Care (Palliative Care and Euthanasia)
Chapter 4. Patients Not Capable to Exercise Their Rights (Autonomously)
Chapter 5. Specific Activities and Issues
Part III. The Physician in Relation to the Healthcare System
Chapter 1. Collegial Relationships
Chapter 2. Relationship with Other Professions
Chapter 3. Relationship with Healthcare Institutions
Chapter 4. Relations with Social Security
Selected Bibliography
Index
