医事法の立場から : 医事法的観点からみた患者の身体(シンポジウム 患者の身体をどう考えるか)

抄録

The developments of modern medical technology raise problems on the legal status of patient's body in the various medical fields. Firstly, in the medical treatment. Who has the authority to select the means of intervention in the patient's body? Secondly, in the humanexperimentation or crinical trial/research. To what extent can doctors use the subject's body? Thirdly, in euthanasia, death with dignity and organtransplantation. Also in these cases, patient's body occupies an inportant position. And lastly, in the life-beginning or reproduction field. Here especially women's body and enbryo's or fetus's body or life become an issue. The common subject in these cases are whether we can regard the patient's body as a part of personality, and who has the authority to dispose of his body. In this paper I'm to consider on this subject from the viwpoint of medical law.