Optional Papers (Anyone): c. Health Care Laws

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University · LL.B. Semester 3 · LLB 213

Unit I — Medicine and Healthcare

a. Emerging Health issues: National and International perspective · b. Constitutional Provisions i. Right to Health be expressly made Fundamental Right by Constitutional Amendment ii. Remedies Available under the Indian Constitution iii. Right to nformation vis-à-vis the Right to Confidentiality iv. Clinicaltrials and Human Rights of participants undergoing clinicaltrials

Unit II — Legal dimensions of Healthcare and Medical ethics

a. Transplantation of Human Organs Act,1994 · b. Pre-Conception and Pre Natal-DiagnosticTechniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 · c. The International Code of Medical Ethics · d. Mental Healthcare Act, 2017. · e. The Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940

Unit III — Medical Negligence

a. Ingredients · b. Role of Consent in Medical Practice · c. Error of Judgment a nd Gross Negligence · d. Wrongful Diagnosis and Negligent Diagnosis

Unit IV — Remedies for Medical Negligence

a. Remedies: i. Law of Torts ii. Law of Crimes iii. Consumer Protection Law · b. Lifesaving drugs: Balancing aprivate and public interest