Medical law. Cases and commentaries

Abbreviations str. 9

Introduction str. 11

Chapter I
Constitutional standards str. 19

1. Right to conscientious objection str. 21

2. Medical ethics str. 28

3. Research experiment on humans str. 32

4. Status of a conceived child str. 39

5. Information about health condition str. 50

6. Constitutional right to health protection str. 55

7. Statute of limitation for claims str. 63

8. Protection of incapacitated persons str. 70

9. Filiation of a child str. 77

10. Medical ethics II str. 82

Chapter II
European standards str. 91

I. Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights str. 93

1. Transsexualism str. 93

2. Assisted suicide str. 102

3. Substitute consent str. 108

4. Civil liability for childbirth str. 112

5. Abortion str. 117

6. Medically assisted procreation str. 128

II. Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union str. 133

7. Abortion and free movement of services str. 133

8. Legislative competence in the sphere of health protection str. 141

9. Financing of cross-border medical services str. 147

10. Biotechnological directive str. 155

11. Right to reimbursement for cross-border treatment str. 162

12. Reimbursement for unauthorised cross-border treatment str. 170

Chapter III
Autonomy str. 185

1. Relative indications for procedure str. 187

2. Scope of duty to inform str. 190

3. Cosmetic surgery and duty to inform str. 193

4. Scope of duty to inform II str. 196

5. Duty to inform and civil liability str. 200

6. Burden of proof of providing information str. 204

7. Procedure utilizing products not admitted to trading str. 209

8. Validity of consent to surgery and lack of written form str. 213

9. Blank consent str. 217

10. Refusal of service and duty to inform str. 221

11. Duty to inform and omission of procedure str. 226

12. Penal liability for treatment without consent str. 231

Chapter IV
Civil liability str. 235

I. Liability principles and basis str. 237

1. Liability based on the principle of equity str. 237

2. Concurrence of liabilities str. 241

3. Organisational fault of a hospital str. 245

4. Grounds for hospital's liability str. 250

5. Insurer's liability str. 256

6. Grounds and prerequisites for compensation claims str. 261

II. Establishment of causal nexus and damage str. 265

7. Contributory negligence of the injured and refusal of treatment str. 265

8. Prerequisites for compensation and experiencing no harm str. 270

9. Proving in medical proceedings str. 276

10. Hypothetical consent and legally relevant damage str. 280

11. Hypothetical consent and scope of duty to inform str. 284

12. Duty to inform and legally relevant damage str. 289

13. Hypothetical consent and lack of information str. 296

III. Standards of health care services str. 304

14. The highest standard available str. 304

15. Average standard str. 307

IV. Childbirth as source of liability str. 311

16. Birth of a disabled child str. 311

17. Liability for costs of maintaining a child str. 318

18. Constitutionality of classifying a child as damage str. 326

19. Costs of maintaining a child as damage str. 333

20. Birth as damage - wrongful life str. 342

Chapter V
Procreation str. 347

1. Sterilisation of disabled persons str. 349

2. Artificial heterologous insemination str. 354

3. Status of human body str. 358

4. Substitute maternity str. 365

5. Limits of duty to protect human dignity str. 369

6. Status of human gametes str. 376

7. Penal protection of a child during labour str. 381

Chapter VI
End of life str. 389

1. Living will str. 391

2. Doctor's duty to provide aid str. 396

3. General duty to provide aid str. 401

4. Persistent therapy str. 406

5. Discontinuation of nutrition in vegetative state str. 417

6. Assisted suicide str. 427

7. Siamese twins separation str. 434

Chapter VII
Other cases str. 443

I. Problems of transsexuality str. 445

1. Correction of birth certificate str. 445

2. Sex affiliation as personal right str. 450

3. Declaring the sex of a transsexual person str. 454

II. Problems with financing of health care services str. 458

4. Financing of extra-contractual services str. 458

III. Other issues str. 465

5. Experiment on a person being artificially sustained alive str. 465

6. Psychiatric confidentiality str. 470

List of rulings str. 475

Index str. 479