Health Public Law

Recommended Prerequisites

not applicabel

 

Teaching Methods

Seminar. There will be a specific subject matter selected for each session, in whose discussion students are all supposed to take an active part. After the syllabus has been discussed, students will write an in-depth research paper. The assessment will be carried out on the basis of the research paper and its oral discussion.

Learning Outcomes

- definition of the object of Health Public Law and its connection with other legal and non legal knowledge areas

- mapping Health Constitutional Law by privileging a principlist approach

- understand healthcare service within the overall framework of State functions

- assess patients' rights within the framework of public healthcare establishments

-  reflect about the legal mechanisms for holding the State liable for damages resulting from healthcare services in public establishments

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

General Part

1. Introduction to Health Public Law

2. Different approches to Healthcare

Special Part

1. Health Constitutional Law

- Constitution and health

- Bioconstitutional principles

2. Healthcare administrative law

- Health service within the framework of the administrative function

- The medical-patient-public health institution legal relationship

- Administration liability for damages resulting from health services

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Oral Defense: 20.0%
Research work: 80.0%

Bibliography

LOUREIRO,  João Carlos, Constituição e biomedicina: contributo para uma teoria dos deveres bioconstitucionais na esfera  da genética humana, Coimbra, 2003, Vol. I, Parte III.

___, “Prometeu,  Golem & Companhia: Bioconstituição e corporeidade numa “sociedade (mundial) de risco”, Boletim da Faculdade de Direito 85 (2009), p. 151-196.

MONIZ, Ana Raquel Gonçalves, Responsabilidade Civil Extracontratual pela Prestação de Cuidados de Saúde em Estabelecimentos Públicos - O Acesso à Justiça Administrativa, Coimbra, 2003.