Format:
1 Online-Ressource (90 Seiten)
Edition:
4th ed
ISBN:
9789403541136
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- The Authors -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Chapter 1. General Background of the Country -- 1. Geography and Climate -- 2. Political and Judicial System -- 3. Population and Vital Statistics -- Chapter 2. General Description of the Healthcare System -- 1. General Overview of the Healthcare System -- I. Brief History -- II. Overview -- 2. Regulation of the Healthcare System -- 3. Financing of Healthcare -- 4. Health Insurance -- Chapter 3. Medical Law -- 1. Definitions and Functions of Medical Law -- 2. Sources of Medical Law -- I. International Law and Codes -- II. National Sources -- Part I. The Medical Profession -- Chapter 1. Access to the Medical Profession -- 1. Medical Education -- I. Undergraduate Medical Education -- II. Medical Education after Graduation -- III. Graduate Medical Education -- 2. Licensing of Medical Doctors and Specialities -- 3. Manpower Planning: Freedom of Establishment -- 4. Responsibility of the Central and Local Governments -- Chapter 2. Practice of Medicine -- 1. Legal Conditions for the Practice of Medicine -- 2. Illegal Practice of Medicine -- Chapter 3. Control over the Practice of Medicine -- 1. Licence and Disciplinary Action by the MHLW -- 2. The Role of JMA and Associations/Colleges -- 3. Professional Liability -- I. Introduction -- II. Civil Liability -- A. Torts -- B. Breach of Contract -- C. Negligence and Causation -- D. Rights and Legally Protected Interests -- 1. General Explanation -- 2. Duty to Provide Information to the Patient -- 3. To Whom Do Doctors Have a Duty? -- 4. Loss of Chance -- E. The Amount of Compensation -- III. Criminal Liability -- A. Homicide -- B. Causing Death or Injury by Negligence -- IV. Alternative Dispute Resolution and Other No-Fault Compensation Schemes
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A. No-Fault Compensation on Yakugai -- B. No-Fault Compensation on Birth Defects -- C. Complaints from Patients -- Part II. The Physician-Patient Relationship -- Chapter 1. General Description -- 1. Rights and Duties of Patients and Physicians -- I. Rights of Patients Generally -- II. Duty of Physicians Generally -- III. The Right to Consent and Information -- IV. Confidentiality -- Chapter 2. The Physician-Patient Relationship in Specific Terms -- 1. Minor Patient -- I. Medical Neglect Cases and the Legal System in Japan -- II. Medical Decision-Making for Severely Ill Newborns -- 2. Mental Patients -- I. Brief History -- II. Purpose of the Statute and Definition -- III. Types and Requirements of Hospitalization -- IV. Mental Hospital and Doctor -- V. Mental Health Committee -- VI. Caregiver -- VII. Tort Liability Concerning Mental Patients -- 3. Dying Patients -- I. Introduction -- II. Cases of Euthanasia by a Doctor -- A. The Tokai Daigaku University Case -- B. The Kawasaki Kyodo Byouin Hospital Case -- III. Other Cases and Guidelines -- Chapter 3. Specific Activities -- 1. Abortion -- I. Overview -- II. Abortion Based on (Risk of) Foetal Abnormality and Disease/Disability -- 2. Sterilization -- 3. Assisted Reproductive Technology -- I. Regulations on ART -- A. Introduction -- II. Parent-Child Relationship -- A. Introduction -- B. Who Is the Child's Father in AID Cases? -- C. Who Is the Child's Father in Post-mortem Insemination Cases? -- D. Who Is the Child's Mother in Cases Involving Donated Eggs and a Surrogate/Host Mother? -- E. The Act on ART 2020 -- 4. Genetic Diagnosis, Insurance and Gene Therapy -- I. Genetic Diagnosis and Insurance -- II. Gene Therapy and Genome Editing -- 5. Organ Transplantation -- I. Brief History of Organ Transplantation and Its Regulation -- II. Heart Transplantation and Brain Death -- III. Current Statute
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6. Autopsy and Storage/Use of Human Tissue from Cadaver -- I. Court Decisions on Dead Bodies and Remains for Interment -- II. Statutes -- III. A Case Around Human Tissues -- 7. Medical Research -- I. General Description -- II. Statutory 'Chiken' -- III. Other Medical Research -- IV. Recent Legal Regulations -- 8. Quarantine and Medical Care to Combat Infectious Diseases -- Part III. The Physician and the Healthcare System -- Chapter 1. Relationship with Other Healthcare Providers -- 1. Pharmacists -- 2. Midwives -- 3. Nurses -- 4. Other Healthcare Technicians -- Chapter 2. Relationship with Healthcare Institutions -- Chapter 3. Others: Minister's Direction -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kai, Katsunori Medical Law in Japan Alphen aan den Rijn : Wolters Kluwer Law International,c2022 ISBN 9789403541129
Language:
English
Keywords:
Japan
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Medizin
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Recht
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