| Course Name | Health Law |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| LAW 364 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Course Objectives | The aim of this course is to examine the duties and responsibilities of State and the health professionals and special cases in practice within the scope of right to health as a basic social right. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The subject matter of this course is to examine the right to health within the scope of the duties of the social state, and the rights of patients and responsibilities of the healthcare professional and institutions about medical intervention in relation with the healthcare contract. |
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| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Social State and “Right to Health” | Nobile, M. (2014) The WHO Definition of Health: A Critical Reading. Medicine and Law, 33(2): 33-40. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/mlv33&id=124&men_tab=srchresults# Moran, M. 2000. Understanding the Welfare State: The Case of Health Care. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2(2): 135-160. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-856X.00031 Friedmann, Sarah. 2004. The Right to Health. Human Rights & Human Welfare, 4(1): https://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/researchdigest/health/right.pdf Arenas Catalán, E. 2021. The right to health as a social right. The Human Right to Health. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 60- 100. https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781788979641.00011.xml Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights & World Health Organization. 2008. The Right to Health, Fact Sheet No. 31. https://www.ohchr.org/documents/publications/factsheet31.pdf |
| 2 | Historical background of Healthcare, Law and Ethics | EIDE,A. (2000), "Economic and Social Rights"pp.109-1174.https://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/r28245.pdf, ÇAMUR GÖZLER, E.(2017)Civil and Political Rights vs. Social and Economic Rights: A Brief Overview,Journal of Bitlis Eren University, v:6, No.1, pp.205-214. Civil and Political Rights vs. Social and Economic Rights: A Brief Overview Elif GÖZLER ÇAMUR GOSTIN, L.O.(2014) "Health and Human Rights"(Chapter 8), Global Health Law, Harvard University Press, London. , pp.243-270 Majumdar, S.K. 2003. History of Evolution of the Concept of Medical Ethics. Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine, 33(1): 17-31. http://www.ccras.nic.in/sites/default/files/viewpdf/jimh/BIIHM_2003/17%20to%2031.pdf Govind, A. 2013. A Short History of the Current Approach to Ethical Health Care. https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2013/11/07/short-history-current-approach-ethical-health-care Verma, D. 2020. A Brief History of Healthcare. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/brief-history-healthcare-divya-verma |
| 3 | Healthcare Ethics | Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine https://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/treaty/164. Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine concerning biomedical research (https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2011/06/20110611M1-4-1.pdf)(https://www.titck.gov.tr/faaliyetalanlari/ilac/klinik-arastirmalar) Nuket Ornek Buken; Erhan Buken, “The Legal and Ethical Aspects of Medical Malpractice in Turkey”, 10 Eur. J.Health L. 201 (2003), pp.201-213 (heinonline) Seedhouse, D. 2008. Ethics is the Key. Ethics: The Heart of Healthcare. New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 16-27. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/izmir/reader.action?docID=406494&ppg=78 Chuan, V.T., Huxtable, R., & Peart, N. (Eds.). 2018. Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism: Essays on the Works of Alastair V. Campbell. London: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315162874/healthcare-ethics-law-professionalism-voo-teck-chuan-richard-huxtable-nicola-peart |
| 4 | Legal Responsibilities of Healthcare Professionals/Medial Doctors(1) | Medical Ethics Manual, World Medical Association. https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/education/medical-ethics-manual/.Riis, P. 1996. Medical Negligence. World Health Forum, 17(3): 215-218. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/53943/WHF_1996_17%283%29_p215-239.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Tort Law: The Rules of Medical Malpractice https://lawshelf.com/shortvideoscontentview/tort-law-the-rules-of-medical-malpractice |
| 5 | Legal Responsibilities of Healthcare Professionals/Medial Doctors(2) | Şenel Eraslan B, Karadayı B, Çakı İE, Aslan N, Varlık Tokgözoğlu E, Kılıç Ç, et al. Legal and ethical responsibilities of physicians in coercive situations, such as natural disasters. Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg 2018;24:440-444. https://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&sid=b168e0d9-b973-4560-ab7a-55f96602c042%40sessionmgr4006 J. D. Finc, Legal Obligations and Responsibilities of The Medical Practitioner, Br. J. Anaesth. (1987), 59, 870-876 Aimakhu, C.O. 2015. An Insight into Medical Malpractice and Litigation. Tropical Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 32(1): 150-154. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/tjog/article/view/118196 |
| 6 | Medical Malpractice in Turkish Civil Law and Criminal Law | Durmuş, V. “A Broad Overview Of Medical Malpractice Liability Policy In Turkey”. http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/ijhmt/ Int Journal Of Health Manag. And Tourism 2017, 2(2), 1-18 Karakus Yilmaz, B., Topcu, H. & Acar, Y.A. 2017. Assessment of Legal Obligations of Physicians from Emergency Physician Perspective. The Medical Bulletin of Sisli Etfal Hospital, 51(2): 142-148. https://jag.journalagent.com/sislietfaltip/pdfs/SETB_51_2_142_148%5bA%5d.pdf |
| 7 | Legal Practice (1) | YILMAZ, H. (2016)«Realizing Social and Economic Rights; The Example of Judicial Attidutes Towards the Rationing of Healthcare in Turkey», HFD, 6(1), 2016;47-62. http://www.hukukdergi.hacettepe.edu.tr/dergi/C6S1makale2.pdf |
| 8 | Midterm | |
| 9 | Legal Practice(2) | Gecekusu v. Turkey. European Court of Human Rights(ECHR) Decision. https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/tur#{%22fulltext%22:[%22gecekusu%20v.turkey%22],%22itemid%22:[%22001-99335%22]}. Case of Vo V. France. ECHR, https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/tur#{%22fulltext%22:[%22Vo.V%20France%22],%22itemid%22:[%22001-61887%22]}. |
| 10 | Patients’ Rights and Responsibilities | World Health Organization, Patients’ Rights, http://www.who.int/genomics/public/patientrights/en/. E.Aydın, “Rights of patients in developing countries: the case of Turkey”, Journal of Medical Ethics, V.30,Issue.6, 2004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.2003.005819, https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/30/6/555.full.pdf Scowen, P. 2006. Patients’ rights and responsibilities. The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 88(5): 152-154. Access link: https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.1308/147363506X107953 |
| 11 | Informed consent, confidentiality | Bryan, D.S., Sade, R.M. 2018. Delegation of Informed Consent: Law and Ethics. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 106(3): 651-653. https://www.clinicalkey.com/service/content/pdf/watermarked/1-s2.0-S000349751830746X.pdf?locale=en_US&searchIndex= Cocanour, C.S. 2017. Informed consent – It’s more than a signature on a piece of paper. The American Journal of Surgery, 214(6): 993-997. https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0002961017307201?token=B3E1010D91EBFDD7375AA415278C4D7876F4E0CAB11E44FFB37FC419A6007022A0346B04A333D71631C2E3C555DD0B18&originRegion=eu-west-1&originCreation=20211110101835 Mikhedenko, A. 2017. The Council of Europe’s perspective: Principle of free and informed consent in the Oviedo Convention. Free and informed consent as a core principle of the protection of human rights in the field of biomedicine, pp. 6-10. Access link: https://rm.coe.int/proceedings-minsk-8-dec-2017-e/16807b4e41 Kottow, M.H. 1986. Medical confidentiality: an intransigent and absolute obligation. Journal of Medical Ethics, 12: 117-122. https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/12/3/117.full.pdf Bramley, S. 2000. Medical records and the law. BJU International, 86(3): 286-290. https://bjui-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1046/j.1464-410x.2000.00294.x Cases and precedents from Turkish legal practice.(Lexpera and Kazanci Court Decision Banks). |
| 12 | The conditions for medical intervention and right to integrity of the person | Koru, O. 2021. The Legality of Medical Intervention: Indication Requirement. Inonu University Law Review, 12(2): 491-500. See “Extended Summary”. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1646470 Rodley, N.S. Integrity of the Person. International Human Rights Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, see 174-182. https://books.google.com.tr/books?hl=tr&lr=&id=YkcXAgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA174&dq=%22right+to+integrity+of+the+person&ots=s8pxCcXFko&sig=P_bOvLycpcXd3kXECkR4mNpRhc4&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22right%20to%20integrity%20of%20the%20person&f=false Cases and precedents from Turkish legal practice.(Lexpera and Kazanci Court Decision Banks) |
| 13 | Medical research | Guraya SY, London N, Guraya SS. Ethics in medical research. J Microsc Ultrastruct [serial online] 2014 [cited 2021 Nov 10];2:121-6. Available from: https://www.jmau.org/text.asp?2014/2/3/121/224876, |
| 14 | Transplantation of organ and tissues | Bollen, J.A.M. vd. 2019. Euthanasia through living organ donation: Ethical, legal, and medical challenges. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 38(2): 111-113. https://www.clinicalkey.com/service/content/pdf/watermarked/1-s2.0-S1053249818315663.pdf?locale=en_US&searchIndex= |
| 15 | Abortion and sterilization | Sevinj Jabrayilova-Sh.”Cross-Cutting Issues on The Right To Life in The Context of Law”. Hacettepe HFD, 5(2) 2015, 117–138. http://www.hukukdergi.hacettepe.edu.tr/dergi/C5S2makale5.pdf Mitra, A. 2017. We’re Always Going to Argue about Abortion: International Law’s Changing Attitudes towards Abortion. New Zealand Women’s Law Journal, 1: 142-181. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/nzwomlj1&id=148&collection=peggy&index= |
| 16 | Final Exam |
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| Semester Activities | Number | Weighting |
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| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 40 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 60 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 3 | 48 |
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| Midterms | 1 | 37 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 47 | |
| Total | 180 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to possess the knowledge in legal terminology, concepts and principles. | X | ||||
| 2 | Solves the legal problems with an analytic and integral point of view. | X | ||||
| 3 | Evaluates the legal knowledge and abilities obtained with a critical approach. | X | ||||
| 4 | Evaluates the developments in legal theory and practice by monitoring local, international and interdisciplinary dimensions. | X | ||||
| 5 | Is conscious of social, professional and scientific principles of ethic behaviour. | X | ||||
| 6 | Takes responsibility in solving problems by creative and innovative thinking. | X | ||||
| 7 | Interprets the sources of law by ways of legal methodology. | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to interpret the legal norms with a sense of justice respectful to human rights and in the light of principles of democratic, secular and social state of law. | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to use the daily scientific sources and court judgments in the framework of life time learning approach. | X | ||||
| 10 | Informs the related persons and institutions about legal matters both verbally and in written. | X | ||||
| 11 | Monitors the daily legal information/court decisions and interacts with the colleagues in a foreign language (“European Language Portfolio Global Scale” Level B1). | X | ||||
| 12 | Uses the information and communication technology together with the computer programs in a level required by the area of law (“European Computer Driving Licence, Advanced Level”). | X | ||||
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