Why eight EU Member States signed, but not yet ratified the Convention for Human Rights and Biomedicine

Health Policy

Volumn 86, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 222-233

  Goffin, Tom ^a   Borry, Pascal ^a   Dierickx, Kris ^a   Nys, Herman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomedicine Convention; Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine; Patient rights; Patient rights legislation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT RIGHT;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONSENSUS; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; PATIENT RIGHTS;

EID: 40849126628     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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