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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 the Netherlands. 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 the Netherlands 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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Emeritus Professor Dr Herman Nys (born on 20 January 1951) studied Law at KU Leuven University (1969-1974) and Radboud University Nijmegen (1974-1975). From 1975-1980, he worked as assistant, specialising in healthcare law, at the Centre for Hospital Sciences in Leuven, where he received his doctoral for his thesis on Legal Aspects of Healthcare Planning in 1980. During the years 1981-1989, he was affiliated with the Law School in Leuven, first as Lecturer of Medical Law and from 1985 to 1996, he worked as an associate professor. He was the Director of the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Law in Leuven from 1989 to 2015. In 1992, he was appointed as a professor, and he retired on 1 October 2016. Between 2000-2006, he was also the Professor of International Health Law at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. Prof. Nys is the author of numerous books and articles on medical law and healthcare policy. He is a member of the editorial boards of several learned journals and editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Health Law. He was also the co-founder and director of the European Association of Health Law (2008-2017) and vice-president of the World Association of Medical Law (2010-2012). He is the first deputy chairman of the European Group of Ethics in Science and New Technologies (2017-2019).

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