Dutch Health Law

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Dutch Health Law and Health Ethics play an important part in setting the norms within which medicine is practiced. A study of the Dutch Law allows medical students the opportunity to explore the limits and opportunities that the Law places on their professional lives within the context of Dutch society. Health Law has been a part of the Faculty of Medicine since the creation of the Faculty. The Health Law group is now based in the Health, Ethics and Society department (Metamedica) in FHML and CAPHRI. It researches and teaches in the areas of traditional Medical Law (examining, for example, questions of patients rights, of medical professionals’ duties, of the regulation of the profession, and of the rules concerning access to health care), and more interdisciplinary questions of Health Law (considering, for example, the regulation of the development and implementation of new technologies in health care, of Law’s response to the health in society, the ethical construction of the Law, broader questions of the Law and nutrition and public health programmes and the rights of individuals to make life choices). Number of available places: 30