Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law

This book shows how the legal systems of individual European countries protect patient autonomy. In particular, it explains the role of criminal law, that is, what criminal law protection of patient autonomy looks like on a European scale in both legal and social dimensions. Despite EU integration processes, the work illustrates that the legal orders of individual European countries are far from uniform in this area. The concept of patient autonomy here is generally in the context of the patient's freedom from unwanted medical activities: the so-called negative freedom. At the same time, in countries where there are no regulations clearly criminalising the performance of a therapeutic activity without the patient's consent, the so-called positive freedom is also discussed. The book will be a valuable reference work for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in Health Law, Medical Ethics, Applied Ethics and Criminal Law.

Pawel Daniluk is a Professor in the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

List of Contributors Introduction Pawel Daniluk Chapter 1. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: An Austrian Perspective Joanna Dlugosz-Józwiak Chapter 2. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Belgian Perspective Frank Verbruggen Chapter 3. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Bosnian-Herzegovinian Perspective Maja Pilic Chapter 4. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Bulgarian Perspective Darina Zinovieva & Daniela Doncheva Chapter 5. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Czech Perspective Olga Sovova & Helena Van Beersel Krejcíková Chapter 6. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Finnish Perspective Raimo Lahti Chapter 7. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A German Perspective Dorothea Magnus Chapter 8. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Greek Perspective Elisabeth Symeonidou-Kastanidou Chapter 9. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: An Italian Perspective Riccardo Ercole Omodei Chapter 10. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Latvian Perspective Aldis Lieljuksis Chapter 11. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Lithuanian Perspective Gintaras svedas & Aurelijus Gutauskas Chapter 12. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Montenegrin Perspective Darko Radulovic Chapter 13. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Dutch Perspective Liselotte Postma & Paul Mevis Chapter 14. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Norwegian Perspective Linda Gröning Chapter 15. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Polish Perspective Pawel Daniluk Chapter 16. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Portuguese Perspective Sónia Fidalgo Chapter 17. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Russian Perspective Alexander Georgievich Blinov Chapter 18. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Serbian Perspective Veljko Turanjanin Chapter 19. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Slovenian Perspective Damjan KoroSec Chapter 20. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Spanish Perspective Manuel Cancio Meliá Chapter 21. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Swiss Perspective Nora Scheidegger Chapter 22. Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law: A Turkish Perspective Hakan Hakeri Conclusion: A Comparative Look at the Criminal Law Protection of Patient Autonomy in Europe Krzysztof Wala Index