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Authors: Bosek, Leszek¹; Pawliczak, Jakub²

Source: European Journal of Health Law, Volume 17, Number 4, 2010 , pp. 361-383(23)

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, an imprint of Brill

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Abstract:

The Act of 6 November 2008 on Patients' Rights and the Commissioner for Patients' Rights collect and safeguard patients' basic rights as well as provide, for the first time in Poland, an original concept for patients' collective rights. In addition, the new Act stipulates the specific mechanism for protecting patients' rights by the newly established body called the Commissioner for Patients' Rights. Polish reform of medical law will undoubtedly contribute to the expected ratification of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. However, the nature of codified rights is relatively abstract, and the Act cannot be read without reference to legislation related to physicians and health care institutions.

Keywords: patients' rights; collective rights; codification; Poland; medical law; constitutional law; bioethics; Commissioner for Patients'; Rights; Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157180910X516367

Affiliations: 1: Institute of Civil Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw Poland Centre for Medical Law and Bioethics, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Krakow Poland, Email: bosek@wpia.uw.edu.pl 2: Institute of Civil Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw Poland, Email: jakub.pawliczak@gmail.com

Publication date: 2010-08-01