LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS IN HUNGARY

24 November 2015

Conference room

 

LEGAL SECTION

 

Chair: Mihály Filó

09:00   Opening

András Jakab, Director of HAS Centre for Social Sciences and Institute for Legal Studies

09:15   Interpretation of Discourse Ethics in relation to the Euthanasia Issue

Barcsi Tamás

09:30   End-of-Life Decisions in the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Buzás Péter

09:45   An Unsolicited Guardian – Our End-of-Life Decision in the Hand of the Constitutional Court      

Vissy Beatrix

10:00   Macbeth and the Bioethical Dilemma on the Edges of Life. Pregnant Women in Persistent Vegetative State

Sándor Judit

10:15   Comments, discussion

10:30   Capacity to Consent, Capacity to Act in the End-of-Life Decisions

Dósa Ágnes

10:45 Changing Rules on Capacity to Act – in relation to the Right to Refuse Care

Molnár Hella Katalin

11:00 Who Makes Decision and How He Makes Decision in the Question of Life and Death? End-of-Life Decision Making in the Hungarian Intensive Care Units

Zubek László

11:15 New Interpretation of Resuscitation: Autonomy and Patient Safety

Élő Gábor

11:30   Comments, discussion

12:00 Medical Paternalism or the Patient’s Right to Self-Determination? End-of-Life Decisions under the Hungarian law from a German Lawyer’s Perspective

Richard Ehmann

12:15   Crime, Accessory to Crime, Self-Determination: Assisted Suicide in Europe

Filó Mihály

12:30   Discussion, epilogue

 

MEDICAL AND ETHICAL SECTION

 

Chair: János Gál

13:30     Opening

János Gál, Deputy of Clinical Rector of Semmelweis University

13:45   Limitation of Treatment and Medical Ethics

Kovács József

14:00   Psychology of Medical Communication

 Varga Kata

14:15    Palliative Medicine as End-of-Life Decision

 Hegedüs Katalin

14:30    Allocation of Health Care Costs

Hermann Csaba

14:15   Comments, discussion

14:30   Limitation of Treatment from a Professional Physicist's Perspective 

Iványi Zsolt

14:45   Criteria for Futility and Protocols

Élő Gábor

15:00 Score Systems and End-of-Life Decisions

Zubek László

15:15   Encounter of Layman and Professional in the End-of-Life Planning

Csikós Dóra

15:15   Discussion, epilogue