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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 | 2016/17 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Law and Biomedicine | Code | 612G01040 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optativa | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| PART I | . |
| Lesson 1. Norms | 1. The regulation of biomedicine. Bioethics. Professional norms and guidelines. Public Policy. Health economics. Biolaw and health law. 2. The legal regulation of biomedicine. Human rights. Constitution. Globalization. International and national regulations 3. Health and justice. The legal meaning of health. The access to health care. |
| Lesson 2. Reasons | 1. Facts. Values. Duties. Rights. 2. Deliberation in bioethics. Ethical commissions. 3. Legal argumentation. Legal reasoning and basic rights. |
| Lesson 3. Individuals | 1. Clinical and research relationships. From paternalism to autonomy and rights 2. Patient and research subject: rights, duties and responsibilities 3. Healthcare professional and biomedical researcher: rights, duties and responsabilities 4. Government and public administration. Companies. Society. |
| Lesson 4. Biomedical professions | 1. Clinical acts. Research activities 2. Clinical practice and “lex artis” 3. Accountability and liability in biomedical professions 4. Conscientious objection |
| Lesson 5. Patient autonomies | 1. Decisional autonomy. Informed consent. Advance directives. Substitute decision-making 2. Informational autonomy. Privacy and confidentiality. Biomedical and health data. Clinical records. 3. Executive autonomy. Disability, dependence and autonomy 4. The limits of patient autonomy. Autonomy and public health |
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| Lesson 6. The beginning of life | 1. Human embryo 2. Sexuality and reproduction. Is there a right to reproduction? 3. Assisted human reproduction. Is there a right to mother-/fatherhood? 4. Genetic interventions 5. Eugenics and human enhancement 6. Contraception 7. Abortion. Might be abortion a right? 8. Cloning 9. What’s wrong with disability? Models and meaning of disability 10. Is there a right not to be born? |
| Lesson 7. The end of life | 1. The legal meaning of death 2. End of life settings 3. Euthanasia 4. Is there a right to die? 5. Organ and tissues transplantation 6. Are human body and its parts a "res extra commercium"? |
| Lesson 8. Biomedical research | 1. Is there a duty to research? 2. The research imperative 3. The freedom of research 4. Principles and guarantees of biomedical research 5. Legal regulation of biomedical research 6. Research involving human subjects 7. Animal research 8. Biotechnological research |
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