Criminal law as a response to medical malpractice: pluses and minuses--comparing Italian and U.S. experiences [0.03%]
医疗事故的刑法对策：意大利与美国经验之比较及反思——兼论中国《执业医师法》中的相关条款
Andrea R Di Landro
Andrea R Di Landro
The paper is divided into three parts. The first part sets out the comparative differences between the tort of malpractice in common law and the criminal negligence in civil law: while the common law takes for mens rea only the "gross" negl...
Comparative Study
Medicine and law. 2012 Jun;31(2):221-63. DOI: 2012
Marianna Chaves
Marianna Chaves
Assisted Reproduction Techniques produce babies, and also produces all kinds of controversies. In addition to confusing issues relating to identity and meaning of parentage, and beyond the implications of the failure to regulate them, the n...
Legal aspects of post-mortem reproduction: a comparative perspective of French, Brazilian and Portuguese legal systems [0.03%]
死后生育的法律问题——法国、巴西和葡萄牙法律制度之比较视角
Dantas Eduardo,Vera Lúcia Raposo
Dantas Eduardo
Death arrives always too soon, and most often unexpectedly, destroying our plans and the plans of the ones who love us. Medically assisted reproduction offers nowadays a technique that makes possible to have children from someone that recen...
Comparative Study
Medicine and law. 2012 Jun;31(2):181-98. DOI: 2012
Management of conflicts with the parents over administration of life-prolonging treatment in Dutch NICUs [0.03%]
荷兰NICU中关于生命维持治疗与家长冲突的处理
Sofia Moratti
Sofia Moratti
In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) setting, the patient's parents and the medical team dispute sometimes over the administration of life-prolonging treatment to be provided to the patient. This article focuses on the situation where...
Factors associated with child witnessing of intimate partner violence in Canada [0.03%]
加拿大目睹父母暴力的儿童的相关因素分析
Janice Du Mont,Paul D James,Tonia Forte et al.
Janice Du Mont et al.
Knowing the characteristics associated with child exposure to spousal abuse could aid in early identification of at-risk children. The purpose of our study is to determine possible factors associated with child witnessing of intimate partne...
Advance treatment directive: a tool for dialogue or self-protection in the physician-patient relation? [0.03%]
预先进医疗指示：医生与病人关系中的对话工具还是自我保护的手段？
E M Buzzi,P Delbon,S Reedy et al.
E M Buzzi et al.
The authors intend to assess the efficacy of the advance treatment directive as a tool for involving patients into the decision-making process and the actual implementation of the physician-patient communication. It seems particularly appro...
Patients' rights a case for a Charter of Participant Rights in Pre-Market Drug Trials: the next evolution [0.03%]
受试者权利——一项临床试验受试者权益宪章提案：未来的方向
C Tess Sheldon,Lorraine E Ferris
C Tess Sheldon
Since the first publication of Medicine and Law thirty years ago, there have been significant international advances in patient rights and participant protections in clinical trials. Despite such advances, there are still alarming reports o...
The physician's right to conscientious objection: an evolving recognition in Europe [0.03%]
欧洲关于医务人员求慎言行权的认可逐渐加强
Tom Goffin
Tom Goffin
Due to the growing number of medical treatments, physicians--who are also human beings with their own conscience and beliefs--are increasingly confronted with treatments that may conflict with their principles and convictions. Although seve...
Eduardo Osuna
Eduardo Osuna
One of the pillars of healthcare provision is respect for the autonomy of the patient's wishes, which is given substance by the process of obtaining informed consent. Minors deserve special protection, entitled to basic rights and increasin...
Christa van Wyk
Christa van Wyk
In terms of South African legislation, all health research on human participants must be submitted to an accredited research ethics committee for independent ethics review. Health research covers a broad spectrum of research, including clin...