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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient volume provides comprehensive analysis of the law affecting the physician-patient relationship in Austria. Cutting across the traditional compartments with which lawyers are familiar, medical law is concerned with issues arising from this relationship, and not with the many wider juridical relations involved in the broader field of health care law. After a general introduction, the book systematically describes law related to the medical profession, proceeding from training, licensing, and other aspects of access to the profession, through disciplinary and professional liability and medical ethics considerations and quality assurance, to such aspects of the physician-patient relationship as rights and duties of physicians and patients, consent, privacy, and access to medical records. Also covered are specific issues such as organ transplants, human medical research, abortion, and euthanasia, as well as matters dealing with the physician in relation to other health care providers, health care insurance, and the health care system. Succinct and practical, this book will prove to be of great value to professional organizations of physicians, nurses, hospitals, and relevant government agencies. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Austria will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its comparative value as a contribution to the study of medical law in the international context.

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Dr Aline Leischner-Lenzhofer studied Law (Dr iur. in 2006) at the University of Vienna (Austria) and the University of Oslo (Norway) and had completed a Diploma in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution. After working in a medical risk management project at the Vienna General Hospital (Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien), she worked as a university assistant at the Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law (Department of Medical Law) of the University of Vienna from 2006 until 2012. Her main research area lies in the field of Medical Law. Leischner-Lenzhofer taught Medical, Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna, and since 2009 she has been teaching Medical Law at the Danube University of Krems. Dr Claudia Zeinhofer studied Law (Dr iur. in 2007) at the University of Vienna (Austria). She has been working as university assistant at the Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law (Department of Medical Law) of the University of Vienna since 2003. Her main research focus lies in the field of Medicinal Products and Medical Devices Law. Zeinhofer teaches Medical Law at the Danube University of Krems.

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