Nordic health law in a European context : welfare state perspectives on patients' rights and biomedicine / / Elisabeth Rynning & Mette Hartlev (eds.).

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Rynning, Elisabeth.; Hartlev, Mette.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 310 p.

Table of Contents

Health and human rights in the European context / Henriette D.C. Roscam Abbing -- Right to health as a human right in Europe / Matti Mikkola -- The raison d'etre of Nordic health law / Mette Hartlev -- The right to health from a constitutional perspective : the example of the Nordic countries / Anna-Sara Lind -- Health law as a legal discipline / Helle Bdker Madsen -- The Nordic Committee on Bioethics / Sirpa Soini -- The development of patients' rights in Norway / Asbjrn Kjnstad -- Still no patients' act in Sweden : reasons and implications / Elisabeth Rynning -- Human rights, health care, and coercion in Norwegian health law / Aslak Syse -- Detention of pregnant women to protect the foetus : Nordiv [i.e. Nordic] perspectives / Karl Harald Svig -- Cultural accommodation in health services and European human rights / Oddny Mjoll Arnardottir -- Female genital mutilation and the right to privacy : a double-edged sword / Henriettte Sindig Aasen -- Infant male circumcision : Finnish Supreme Court ruling on a multicultural legal protection / Raimo Lahti -- Mutual recognition within the EU of the concepts of sickness and incapacity for work in a rehabilitative situation / Lotta Vahlne Westerhall -- Human dignity as a legal argument in the era of modern biomedicine / Laura Walin -- European integration : a case example from European biomedical research law / Sigmund Simonsen -- The human body and Norwegian property law : ancient and modern / Marit Halvorsen -- Biobank regulation in Finland and the Nordic countries / Salla Sivola -- Genetic privacy : autonomy or solidarity? / Line Bune Juhl -- Death before life : the legal status of cadaveric foetuses / Janne Rothmar Herrmann.