Subjects:

Medical Law, Looseleaf Works

Contents:

Part 1 The medical profession: access to the medical profession - training of physicians, manpower planning - freedom of establishment, licensing of physicians - general practitioners, medical specialists

illegal practice of medicine

control over the practice of medicine - professional liability, quality assurance

review boards, disciplinary organisations (order of physicians) and professional codes, biomedical ethics committee. Part 2 The physician-patient relationship: general description - rights and duties of physicians and patients, informed consent, privacy, secrecy, complaints, access to medical records

the physician-patient relationship in specific terms - the minor patient, the mental patient, the dying patient

specific activities - abortion, sterilisation, in vitro fertilisation, prenatal diagnosis (genetics in general), psychosurgical interventions, organ transplants, experiments on human beings, euthanasia, others (transsexual interventions). Part 3 The physician in relation to the health care system: collegial relationships - associations

health care centres

professional duties towards colleagues

relationship with other health care providers - pharmacists, nurses (midwives), paramedical professionals

relationship with health care provisions - hospitals, preventive health care, health insurance, others.

The ""International Encyclopaedia of Laws"" is a response to the need for comprehensive, up-to-date and readily available information about the major areas of law as they relate to other countries. This series of loose-leaf publications is divided into 13 different major fields of law, each consisting of a combination of national and international monographs.

This volume provides information on medical law. When completed about 60 national monographs will be included, each consisting of about 200 pages. The international monographs cover the World Health Organization and international declarations on medical ethics such as the Declaration of Helsinki (1964) and the European Code of Medical Ethics.