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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Law |
| Grao en Dereito |
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| Law and Biomedicine |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Law and Biomedicine | Code | 612G01040 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Section I. Health care and justice | 1. Health care systems 2. The concept of health 3. The right to health and the right to health care 4. Health justice |
| Section II. Biomedical decision-making and patient autonomy | 1. Clinical relationship and biomedical decision-making 2. Patient autonomies. Concept and limits 3. Decisional autonomy. Requirements. Settings. Informed consent. Advance directives. Substitute decision-making 4. Informational autonomy. Privacy and health data 5. Executive autonomy. Disability, dependence and autonomy |
| Section III. Beginning of life | 1. The status of the human embryo 2. Abortion and termination of pregnancy 3. Medically assisted reproduction 4. Surrogate motherhood 5. Wrongful life, wrongful birth and wrongful conception |
| Section IV. End of life | 1. End of life. Concepts and settings 2. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide 3. The legal meaning of death. Is there a right to die? 4. Organ and tissues transplantation |
| Section V. Biomedical research | 1. Research with human subjects, biological samples and personal data 2. Animal experimentation 3. Research with biological agents and genetically modified organisms (GMO) |
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