5.00 credits
30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Hausman Jean-Marc (compensates Schamps Geneviève); Schamps Geneviève;
Language
French
Main themes
After a general presentation of the legal, deontological and ethical instruments applicable to the medical field, an analysis will be made of several themes of medical and biomedical law. As an example, one or the other of the following topical themes may be studied: the rights of the patient and the rights of the professional practitioner, including the (electronic) medical record, e-health, telemedicine; euthanasia and palliative care; the removal and transplantation of organs or human body material; embryo research; therapeutic or reproductive cloning ; medically assisted procreation; prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation diagnosis; gamete donation; surrogacy; genetic testing; experiments on the human person; medical liability, ethics committees, implications of developments in artificial intelligence, etc.
Content
The student is led to develop a critical and constructive reflection on the specific questions related to medical law and bioethics that are currently raised in society, in Belgium and elsewhere.
This implies that at the end of the course, he or she understands and masters the legal, deontological and ethical aspects raised by biomedical law in several concrete issues.
He is also invited to formulate proposals for the future in interdisciplinary themes.
The themes analyzed during the course may include the following:
Patient rights, including patient autonomy and the ways in which it can be expressed; representation of patients unable to exercise their rights; access to the patient record (electronic or not)
The protection regime for the vulnerable person (elderly, mentally ill, child)
The protection of privacy
The beginning of life: medically assisted procreation, surrogate motherhood, termination of pregnancy
The end of Life: Palliative Care, Euthanasia
Research: embryos; experiments on the human person
The removal and use of organs, human body material and other human materials
Civil, criminal and ethical liability (health care professionals, health care institutions); compensation for health care damages
This implies that at the end of the course, he or she understands and masters the legal, deontological and ethical aspects raised by biomedical law in several concrete issues.
He is also invited to formulate proposals for the future in interdisciplinary themes.
The themes analyzed during the course may include the following:
Patient rights, including patient autonomy and the ways in which it can be expressed; representation of patients unable to exercise their rights; access to the patient record (electronic or not)
The protection regime for the vulnerable person (elderly, mentally ill, child)
The protection of privacy
The beginning of life: medically assisted procreation, surrogate motherhood, termination of pregnancy
The end of Life: Palliative Care, Euthanasia
Research: embryos; experiments on the human person
The removal and use of organs, human body material and other human materials
Civil, criminal and ethical liability (health care professionals, health care institutions); compensation for health care damages
Teaching methods
Achieving the teaching objectives implies, among other things, a careful analysis of texts, the development of critical reasoning, an openness to interdisciplinarity and to foreign systems, and good written and oral expression.
The sessions emphasize interaction with students on the different themes studied.
A passive knowledge of Dutch is desired. Documents and links are available to students on Moodle.
The sessions emphasize interaction with students on the different themes studied.
A passive knowledge of Dutch is desired. Documents and links are available to students on Moodle.
Bibliography
- Voir, sur la plateforme Moodle, la page dédiée au cours.
Teaching materials
- Voir, sur la plateforme Moodle, la page dédiée au cours.
Faculty or entity
BUDR
