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 Portugal. 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 Portugal
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.
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The Author
List of Abbreviations
General Introduction
Selected Bibliography
Part I. The Medical Profession
Chapter 1. Access to the Medical Profession
Chapter 2. The Practice of Medicine
Chapter 3. Control over the Practice of Medicine
Part II. The Physician-Patient Relationship
Chapter 1. General Considerations
Chapter 2. Physician-Patient Relationship: Biomedical Issues
Part III. The Physician and the Health Care System
Chapter 1. The Physician Role in the Health Care System