Medical Law in France

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-90-411-5334-0
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient volume provides comprehensive analysis of the law affecting the physician-patient relationship in France. Cutting across the traditional compartments with which lawyers are familiar, medical law is concerned with issues arising from this relationship, and not with the many wider juridical relations involved in the broader field of health care law.

After a general introduction, the book systematically describes law related to the medical profession, proceeding from training, licensing, and other aspects of access to the profession, through disciplinary and professional liability and medical ethics considerations and quality assurance, to such aspects of the physician-patient relationship as rights and duties of physicians and patients, consent, privacy, and access to medical records. Also covered are specific issues such as organ transplants, human medical research, abortion, and euthanasia, as well as matters dealing with the physician in relation to other health care providers, health care insurance, and the health care system.

Succinct and practical, this book will prove to be of great value to professional organizations of physicians, nurses, hospitals, and relevant government agencies. Lawyers representing parties with interests in France will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its comparative value as a contribution to the study of medical law in the international context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duguet, Anne-Marie

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Westeuropa, Südeuropa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Author. List of Abbreviations. General Introduction. Chapter 1. The General Background of the Country. Chapter 2. The French Health System. Chapter 3. The Social Security System. Part I. The Medical Profession, Chapter 1. Access to Medical Profession. Chapter 2. The Practice of Medicine. Chapter 3. Illegal Practice of Medicine. Chapter 4. Control of the Practice of Medicine. Part II. The Physician-Patient Relationship. Chapter 1. The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Respect of Patient Rights. Chapter 2. The Physician-Patient Relationship in Specific Terms. Chapter 3. The Respect of Patients’ Rights in Medical Practice. Chapter 4. Professional Secrecy. Chapter 5. Specific Activities. Part III. The Physician and the Health Care System. Chapter 1. Relationship with Other Health Care Providers. Chapter 2. Relationship with Health Care Provisions. Chapter 3. Liability of Health Care Provisions. Selected Bibliography. Index