Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Legal Problems in Biomedicine
Course Code
JF_117
Branch of Science
Law
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Juridical Science
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time; Part-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Karina Palkova
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
To promote students' knowledge of legal problems in biomedicine. To introduce students to the legal framework of biomedical practice and solution to problems.
Preliminary Knowledge
Law in Medicone, Human Rights, Criminal Law, Civil Law.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Students have a basic understanding of biomedical law. They are able to carry out both relevant work and research, and continue further learning under complex and unpredictable conditions within the given subject area, and to modify them where necessary, using new and non-standard approaches. Able to justify and explain their opinion in a reasoned way and participate in discussions as well as provide opinions on complex or systemic issues in biomedicine, on aspects of the professional field with both professionals and non-professionals. In addition, students are able to independently follow innovations in the relevant field of law in order to address professional issues or carry out research. They are able to analyse socio-legal processes creatively and constructively, to debate and justify their own opinion.
Skills
1.Students are able to apply the current legal framework to biomedical law issues and identify problems related to topical issues of national and international regulation. Students are able to use different strategies to analyse basic and problematic issues of biomedical law and to propose reasoned solutions to biomedical law problems.
Competences
1.Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to independently analyse biomedical law issues and propose solutions to the identified problems.
Assessment
Individual work
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Two independent assignments are to be submitted, one to be submitted and presented at the fourth seminar (information about the content of the test will be attached to the fourth seminar in the form of instructions, the topics and descriptions of the assignments will be specified in the instructions) and the other as the end-of-course assignment.
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Examination
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The details of the test content will be added to the fourth seminar in the instruction.
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Examination |
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The final mark consists of the average assessment for the fourth seminar and the end-of-course assignment, as well as the examination mark.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Introduction: description of biomedical rights, basic principles, trends. Biomedical rights and ethics.
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Topics
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Biological human rights and freedom from today’s perspective. Interaction between medicine and biology and modern legal problems.
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Auditorium
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2
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The beginning and the end of the human life. Legal problems.
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Auditorium
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Development of biomedicine and legal challenges. Biomedicine and Human rights. Case law, case studies.
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Use of biotechnologies at the beginning of human life: legal challenges.
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2
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Topics
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Legal aspects of gender reassignment.
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2
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Topics
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Legal aspects of transplantation.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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The problem of refusing treatment at the end of human life. Legal problems of euthanasia.
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Class/Seminar
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Topics
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Artificial intelligence and robotics in biomedicine, related issues.
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Topics
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Personal data protection in biomedicine.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
20 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
PART-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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Modality
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Location
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Introduction: description of biomedical rights, basic principles, trends. Biomedical rights and ethics.
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Lecture
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Modality
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Location
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Biological human rights and freedom from today’s perspective. Interaction between medicine and biology and modern legal problems.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
12 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Mark L Flear et al. European Law and New Health Technologies, OUP 2013. RSU: Informācijas centrs
2.
Autoru kolektīvs S. Ašnevicas-Slokenbergas zinātniskajā redakcijā. Medicīnas tiesības. Rīga: Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2022. RSU:Brīvpieejas abonements RSU:Filiāle-Anniņmuižas b. RSU:Informācijas centrs
3.
Konvencija par cilvēktiesību un cieņas aizsardzību bioloģijā un medicīnā - Konvencija par cilvēktiesībām un biomedicīnu (Ovjedo konvencija)
4.
Pacientu tiesību likums
5.
Eiropas Savienības Pamattiesību harta
6.
Eiropas Padomes Konvencijas par cilvēktiesībām un biomedicīnu Papildprotokols par biomedicīnas pētījumiem
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Ārstniecības likums
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Seksuālās un reproduktīvās veselības likums
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Likums „Par miruša cilvēka aizsardzību un cilvēka audu un orgānu izmantošanu medicīnā”
10.
Nirnbergas kodekss
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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The experience of the EU court of HR with the ECHR end Biomedicine
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EU Civil Law rules on Robotics
14.
Leiden University Report Biomedicine Final - Coe - Council of Europe
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The Rights of Children in Biomedicine
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Health-related issues in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights
Additional Reading
1.
ECT nolēmumi bioētikas jomā. Apkopojuma veidā pieejami internetā.
2.
UNESCO Vispārējā bioētikas un cilvēktiesību deklarācija
3.
Eiropas Padomes Rekomendācija Rec(2006)4 par pētījumiem ar cilvēka izcelsmes bioloģisko materiālu
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Cilvēka genoma izpētes likums
5.
Latvijas ārstu ētikas kodekss (1995, papildināts 1998)
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Medical and HealthCare Robotics
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Bioethics and the case-law of the Court
Other Information Sources
1.
Eiropas Cilvēka tiesību un pamatbrīvību aizsardzības konvencija
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Fizisko personu datu apstrādes likums
3.
Pasaules Medicīnas Asociācijas Helsinku deklarācija