Medical Law in Belgium

ISBN: 9789403530024 出版年：2021 页码：250 Nys, Herman Kluwer Law International

This book deals with important questions concerning the medical profession in Belgium, the physician-patient relationship and the physician in relation to the health-care system. Access to the medical profession, control over the practice of medicine and the rights and duties of physicians and patients are discussed, and efforts made to explain the concepts of good care, informed consent, privacy and compensation for medical injuries. Emphasis is given to special patient categories, such as the minor patient, the mental patient and the dying patient, and specific activities like abortion, insemination, reproductive technologies, prenatal diagnostics, sterilization, castration and transplantation are examined.