Medical law. Cases and commentaries

• Druk: 2012
• Seria / cykl: BIBLIOTEKA SĄDOWA
• Autor: Beata Janiszewska, Leszek Bosek, Marek Safjan, Maria Boratyńska, Przemysław Sobolewski, Witold Borysiak, Zbigniew Banaszczyk
• Wydawca: Wolters Kluwer Polska SA

The publication presents several dozen judgements of European and constitutional tribunals and of Polish as well as foreign courts which relate to the main issues of the debate conducted in Poland nowadays. They illustrate current development trends that occur in Polish and European medical law and also reveal the complexity and intricacy of medical issues. Separate statements enclosed to some judgements highlight the broad scope of problems arising in that field. Glosses to each of the judgements and separate footnotes referring the reader to the literature provide a complete description of the subject matter. They also clarify the normative context of the cases reviewed. Moreover, all comments present problems from legal, ethical, political and even economic perspective. Both theoretical and practical aspects of issues concerning vindication of claims and the range of presentation of claims are highlighted in the book. The Authors contributing to the publication are affiliated with the University of Warsaw. Their main research interests include medical law, civil law, constitutional law and European law. The book is recommended for lawyers and physicians as well as all those interested in the field of bioethics and the issues of the health care.

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• Język wydania: polski
• ISBN: 978-83-264-4748-8
• ISBN druku: 978-83-264-1120-5
• Liczba stron: 500

Abbreviations 	  9
Introduction 	  11
Chapter I	Constitutional standards 	  19
1. Right to conscientious objection 	  21
2. Medical ethics 	  28
3. Research experiment on humans 	  32
4. Status of a conceived child 	  39
5. Information about health condition 	  50
6. Constitutional right to health protection 	  55
7. Statute of limitation for claims 	  63
8. Protection of incapacitated persons 	  70
9. Filiation of a child 	  77
10. Medical ethics II 	  82
Chapter II	European standards 	  91
I. Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights 	  93
1. Transsexualism 	  93
2. Assisted suicide 	  102
3. Substitute consent 	  108
4. Civil liability for childbirth 	  112
5. Abortion 	  117
6. Medically assisted procreation 	  128
II. Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union 	  133
7. Abortion and free movement of services 	  133
8. Legislative competence in the sphere of health protection 	  141
9. Financing of cross-border medical services 	  147
10. Biotechnological directive 	  155
11. Right to reimbursement for cross-border treatment 	  162
12. Reimbursement for unauthorised cross-border treatment 	  170
Chapter III	Autonomy 	  185
1. Relative indications for procedure 	  187
2. Scope of duty to inform 	  190
3. Cosmetic surgery and duty to inform 	  193
4. Scope of duty to inform II 	  196
5. Duty to inform and civil liability 	  200
6. Burden of proof of providing information 	  204
7. Procedure utilizing products not admitted to trading 	  209
8. Validity of consent to surgery and lack of written form 	  213
9. Blank consent 	  217
10. Refusal of service and duty to inform 	  221
11. Duty to inform and omission of procedure 	  226
12. Penal liability for treatment without consent 	  231
Chapter IV	Civil liability 	  235
I. Liability principles and basis 	  237
1. Liability based on the principle of equity 	  237
2. Concurrence of liabilities 	  241
3. Organisational fault of a hospital 	  245
4. Grounds for hospital's liability 	  250
5. Insurer's liability 	  256
6. Grounds and prerequisites for compensation claims 	  261
II. Establishment of causal nexus and damage 	  265
7. Contributory negligence of the injured and refusal of treatment 	  265
8. Prerequisites for compensation and experiencing no harm 	  270
9. Proving in medical proceedings 	  276
10. Hypothetical consent and legally relevant damage 	  280
11. Hypothetical consent and scope of duty to inform 	  284
12. Duty to inform and legally relevant damage 	  289
13. Hypothetical consent and lack of information 	  296
III. Standards of health care services 	  304
14. The highest standard available 	  304
15. Average standard 	  307
IV. Childbirth as source of liability 	  311
16. Birth of a disabled child 	  311
17. Liability for costs of maintaining a child 	  318
18. Constitutionality of classifying a child as damage 	  326
19. Costs of maintaining a child as damage 	  333
20. Birth as damage - wrongful life 	  342
Chapter V	Procreation 	  347
1. Sterilisation of disabled persons 	  349
2. Artificial heterologous insemination 	  354
3. Status of human body 	  358
4. Substitute maternity 	  365
5. Limits of duty to protect human dignity 	  369
6. Status of human gametes 	  376
7. Penal protection of a child during labour 	  381
Chapter VI	End of life 	  389
1. Living will 	  391
2. Doctor's duty to provide aid 	  396
3. General duty to provide aid 	  401
4. Persistent therapy 	  406
5. Discontinuation of nutrition in vegetative state 	  417
6. Assisted suicide 	  427
7. Siamese twins separation 	  434
Chapter VII	Other cases 	  443
I. Problems of transsexuality 	  445
1. Correction of birth certificate 	  445
2. Sex affiliation as personal right 	  450
3. Declaring the sex of a transsexual person 	  454
II. Problems with financing of health care services 	  458
4. Financing of extra-contractual services 	  458
III. Other issues 	  465
5. Experiment on a person being artificially sustained alive 	  465
6. Psychiatric confidentiality 	  470
List of rulings 	  475
Index 	  479