Medical Law

Year
1
Academic year
2018-2019
Code
02036060
Subject Area
Law
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Other Languages of Instruction
English
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
7.0
Type
Elective
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Civil Law, Constitutional Law and Criminal Law

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical classes and seminars with the aim of promoting research work by students

Learning Outcomes

The Curricular Unit aims to provide an up-to-date training on the subject of the relationship between Law and Medicine, providing the mastery of sources, jurisprudence and methodology of legal work in this area of life. It aims to promote the critical and dialectical sense of students in the face of subjects of great sensitivity and social and legal importance.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

General part

1. Introduction to the Law of Medicine (Definition and international, European and national sources);

2. The Medical-Patient Relationship (the medical contract in the private sector, the public hospital relationship);

3. Patient's Rights; 

3.1. Quality medical treatment;

3.2. Informed Consent;

3.3. The Clinical File, the Medical Secret and the Protection of Personal Health Data;

3.4. Patient Safety;

4. Medical Civil Liability; 

5. Disciplinary and criminal responsibility (brief reference);

Special Part 

6. Law and Reproductive Health (Abortion, Medically Assisted Procreation, Statute of the embryo);

7. Legal Implications of Knowledge of the Human Genome (insurance contract, employment contract), others; Gene therapy;

8. Experimentation in Human Beings;

9. Donation and Transplantation of human organs and tissues;

10. Mental Health Law;

11. The End of Life (palliative care, assisted suicide and euthanasia).

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

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,

Volume 1 – Objetos, Redes e Sujeitos,  

Volume 2 - Profissionais de saúde e pacientes. Responsabilidades;

VOLUME 3 - Segurança do paciente e consentimento informado;

Volume 4 - Genética e Procriação Medicamente Assistida;

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