Biomedical Law

Recommended Prerequisites

Constitucional Law, Criminal LAw, Civil Law (Personality rights, tort law)

Teaching Methods

Seminars and paper persentations by the Students

Learning Outcomes

The student shall acquire the knowledge of scientific tools that allow him to carry out relevant research on the subjects of Biomedical Law and shall write a paper that reveals ability to interrelate pluridisciplinary information and to dialogue with the peers with quality and scientific integrity.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Sources of Biomedical Law; Methodology of Biomedical Law; Principles of Biomedical Law; Beginning of life; Physician-Patient Relationship; Patient's Rights; Scientific Experimentation; Genetics and Law, Assisted Reproduction Techniques; Organ Transplantation; End of life.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Research work: 80.0%

Bibliography

Pereira, André Gonçalo Dias, O Consentimento Informado na Relação Médico-Paciente. Estudo de Direito Civil, Publicações do Centro de Direito Biomédico, 9, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2004.

Pereira, André Gonçalo Dias, Direitos dos Pacientes e Responsabilidade Médica, Coimbra, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora, 2015.

LOUREIRO, João/ PEREIRA, André Dias/ BARBOSA; Carla (Eds.)Direito da Saúde - Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Guilherme de Oliveira,

Vol 1 – Objetos, Redes e Sujeitos, 

Vol 2 - Profissionais de saúde e pacientes. Responsabilidades;

 Vol 3 - Segurança do paciente e consentimento informado;

Vol 4 - Genética e Procriação Medicamente Assistida;

Vol 5 - Saúde e Direito: entre a tradição e a modernidade, Almedina, 2016.

Den EXTER, André, European Health Law, MAKLU, 2017

FRANÇA, Genival Veloso, Direito Médico, 14.ª, Saraiva, 2017.

HERRING, J, Medical Law and Ethcis, 6th, Oxford UP, 2016

ROMEO CASABONA, Carlos Maria, ENCICLOPEDIA DE BIODERECHO Y BIOÉTICA, BILBAO, 2011.