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Legal Problems in Biomedicine
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:8.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:38
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_117 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Law | Target Audience: | Juridical Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Karina Palkova | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 2 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 4 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 12 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Law in Medicone, Human Rights, Criminal Law, Civil Law. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To promote students' knowledge of legal problems in biomedicine. To introduce students to the legal framework of biomedical practice and solution to problems. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction: description of biomedical rights, basic principles, trends. Biomedical rights and ethics. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Biological human rights and freedom from today’s perspective. Interaction between medicine and biology and modern legal problems. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The beginning and the end of the human life. Legal problems. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Development of biomedicine and legal challenges. Biomedicine and Human rights. Case law, case studies. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Use of biotechnologies at the beginning of human life: legal challenges. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Legal aspects of gender reassignment. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Legal aspects of transplantation. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | The problem of refusing treatment at the end of human life. Legal problems of euthanasia. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Artificial intelligence and robotics in biomedicine, related issues. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Personal data protection in biomedicine. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction: description of biomedical rights, basic principles, trends. Biomedical rights and ethics. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Biological human rights and freedom from today’s perspective. Interaction between medicine and biology and modern legal problems. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The beginning and the end of the human life. Legal problems. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Development of biomedicine and legal challenges. Biomedicine and Human rights. Case law, case studies. | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Use of biotechnologies at the beginning of human life: legal challenges. | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Legal aspects of gender reassignment. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Legal aspects of transplantation. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | The problem of refusing treatment at the end of human life. Legal problems of euthanasia. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Artificial intelligence and robotics in biomedicine, related issues. | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Personal data protection in biomedicine. | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | 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. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The final mark consists of the average assessment for the fourth seminar and the end-of-course assignment, as well as the examination mark. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | 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: | 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. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to independently analyse biomedical law issues and propose solutions to the identified problems. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| 7 | Ārstniecības likums | ||||||||
| 8 | Seksuālās un reproduktīvās veselības likums | ||||||||
| 9 | Likums „Par miruša cilvēka aizsardzību un cilvēka audu un orgānu izmantošanu medicīnā” | ||||||||
| 10 | Nirnbergas kodekss | ||||||||
| 11 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | ||||||||
| 12 | The experience of the EU court of HR with the ECHR end Biomedicine | ||||||||
| 13 | EU Civil Law rules on Robotics | ||||||||
| 14 | Leiden University Report Biomedicine Final - Coe - Council of Europe | ||||||||
| 15 | The Rights of Children in Biomedicine | ||||||||
| 16 | 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 | ||||||||
| 4 | Cilvēka genoma izpētes likums | ||||||||
| 5 | Latvijas ārstu ētikas kodekss (1995, papildināts 1998) | ||||||||
| 6 | Medical and HealthCare Robotics | ||||||||
| 7 | Bioethics and the case-law of the Court | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Eiropas Cilvēka tiesību un pamatbrīvību aizsardzības konvencija | ||||||||
| 2 | Fizisko personu datu apstrādes likums | ||||||||
| 3 | Pasaules Medicīnas Asociācijas Helsinku deklarācija | ||||||||
