Health Law And Bioethics
Code
MM111
Department
Área de Ensino
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4.5
Subject matter
HEALTH LAW AND BIOETHICS
Bioethics and Biolaw.
Health Law.
Medically assisted reproduction.
The human embryo’s status.
Pre-implantation diagnosis.
Pre-natal diagnosis.
Abortion.
Surrogate motherhood.
Human reproductive cloning.
Stem cell research.
Predictive testing and employment law.
Predictive testing and insurance law.
Patient’s rights.
Informed consent and patient autonomy.
Confidentiality and protection of medical data.
dna databanks.
Medical responsibility.
Research on human subjects.
Ethics committees.
Organ donation and allotransplantation.
Xenotransplantation.
Advanced directives.
Palliative care.
Euthanasia.
Future generations’ rights.
The human genome as a heritage of humanity.
Biotechnological patents;
Nanotechnology.
Tobacco consumption.
Transhumanism
Lisbon, September 2016.
Helena Pereira de Melo.