Nordic health law in a European context : welfare state perspectives on patients' rights and biomedicine / Elisabeth Rynning & Mette Hartlev (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references.

Health and human rights in the European context / Henriette D.C. Roscam Abbing -- Right to health as a human right in Europe / Matti Mikkola -- The raison d'être of Nordic health law / Mette Hartlev -- The right to health from a constitutional perspective : the example of the Nordic countries / Anna-Sara Lind -- Health law as a legal discipline / Helle Bødker Madsen -- The Nordic Committee on Bioethics / Sirpa Soini -- The development of patients' rights in Norway / Asbjørn Kjønstad -- Still no patients' act in Sweden : reasons and implications / Elisabeth Rynning -- Human rights, health care, and coercion in Norwegian health law / Aslak Syse -- Detention of pregnant women to protect the foetus : Nordiv [i.e. Nordic] perspectives / Karl Harald Søvig -- Cultural accommodation in health services and European human rights / Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir -- Female genital mutilation and the right to privacy : a double-edged sword / Henriettte Sindig Aasen -- Infant male circumcision : Finnish Supreme Court ruling on a multicultural legal protection / Raimo Lahti -- Mutual recognition within the EU of the concepts of sickness and incapacity for work in a rehabilitative situation / Lotta Vahlne Westerhäll -- Human dignity as a legal argument in the era of modern biomedicine / Laura Walin -- European integration : a case example from European biomedical research law / Sigmund Simonsen -- The human body and Norwegian property law : ancient and modern / Marit Halvorsen -- Biobank regulation in Finland and the Nordic countries / Salla Sivola -- Genetic privacy : autonomy or solidarity? / Line Bune Juhl -- Death before life : the legal status of cadaveric foetuses / Janne Rothmar Herrmann.

This anthology aims to provide Nordic perspectives on the young and evolving field of health law - or biomedical law - by reflecting on issues that have been explored within the activities of the Nordic Network for Research in Biomedical Law. In the emergence of this fairly new legal discipline, it has become very clear that the Nordic region forms a part of Europe that has been strongly influenced by both hard and soft law initiatives from the European Union and the Council of Europe, but also that Nordic identity, culture, and collaboration clearly remain an important factor in the legal dev.

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