Mirko Garasic,Charles Foster
Mirko Garasic
Foucault suggested that foreigners and criminals are treated in a particularly unfavourable way by the law. We find arguable support for that proposition in the case of Sami Mbarka Ben Garci. He was a Tunisian Muslim prisoner, charged with ...
Yasmin Alhafaji
Yasmin Alhafaji
Health is for most of us the most precious thing one can have. However, in practice situations occur where the patient is harmed within the healthcare institution. Traditionally, there are several ways to protect individuals in society: wit...
Leyre Elizari Urtasun
Leyre Elizari Urtasun
In this study we consider the problem of content of medical information the patient must receive before a medical treatment. Specifically, Spanish law doesn't clarify if doctors must inform patients about every known risk or consequence inh...
Plain packaging and indirect expropriation of trademark rights under BITs: does FCTC help to establish a right to regulate tobacco products? [0.03%]
简包装与BITs下的商标权间接征收:FCTC能否助力界定控烟产品的权利?
Chang-Fa Lo
Chang-Fa Lo
Recently the giant tobacco company Philip Morris served its notice to launch an investor-to-state dispute settlement proceeding against the Australian Government for its introduction of plain packaging requirements on tobacco products. It i...
Maxime Gignon,Olivier Ganry,Cécile Manaouil
Maxime Gignon
The law is a tool used by Government to protect public health. Health is an omnipresent preoccupation, inviting each one of us to protect ourselves against potential risks at all times and in all places. The right to health protection is a ...
Experimental course of bioethics upon the bioethics core curriculum of UNESCO: methodoloy and result of investigation [0.03%]
教科文组织生物伦理学核心课程实验情况:方法与调查结果研究
S Davtyan
S Davtyan
In October 2005 the General Conference of UNESCO adopted the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. The aim of this Declaration was to assist in the realization ofprinciples and support the thorough understanding of the conseq...
The first years of the Finnish Act on Assisted Fertility Treatments--observations from the viewpoint of a supervisory authority [0.03%]
芬兰辅助生育法实施之初的观察:一名监管机构人员的观点
Riitta Burrell
Riitta Burrell
The Act on Assisted Fertility Treatments (1237/2006) entered into force on 1 September 2007. Prior to the entry into force of the Act, the provision of assisted fertility treatments in Finland was governed by general health care legislation...
Public health, cultural norms and the criminal law: an inconvenient union? A case study of female genital cutting [0.03%]
公共卫生、文化规范与刑法:一种不便利的结合?一项关于女性生殖器切割的案例研究
Ireh Iyioha
Ireh Iyioha
Social and cultural stereotypes held about women and their health needs constitute a significant barrier to the enforcement of laws protecting women's health. While the promulgation of remedial legislation to address the problem is a positi...
Brain death: the challenges of translating medical science into Islamic bioethical discourse [0.03%]
脑死亡:将医学成果转化为伊斯兰生物伦理学的挑战
Aasim I Padela,Taha A Basser
Aasim I Padela
Islamic ethico-legal assessments of brain death are varied and controversial. Some Islamic ethico-legal bodies have concluded that brain death is equivalent to cardiopulmonary death; others regard it as an intermediate state between life an...
Filicide, medical empathy, directives of the Supreme Court and reduced punishment [0.03%]
杀人罪、医学共情、最高法院指令与降格处罚
Moshe Kalian,Roberto Mester
Moshe Kalian
The role of empathy in the preparation of legal-psychiatric assessments is a controversial issue which has been discussed in the professional literature and in the practice in Court. The focus of the controversy is the question of objectivi...