Most people depend on medicine to cure their diseases. Technology has improved so much that the most of the diseases are being cured with the help of recent medicines. But medical advances have increased treatment options as well as costs, thus generating many new ethical problems.
This thesis considers ‘The development of medical treatment techniques and criminal law’and explores several solutions to the problem. This thesis consists of six main parts. Ⅰ. Introduction, Ⅱ. Medical safety and criminal law, Ⅲ. Informed consent and arbitrary medical treatment, Ⅳ. Sex change operations, Ⅴ. Terminal medical treatments and criminal law, Ⅵ. Conclusion.
To begin with, I analyse ‘medical safety and criminal law’. Medical malpractice can occur in many different ways. It can occur as the result of a delay in diagnosing an illness or condition, a failure to diagnose a problem, a botched surgery, improper or inappropriate treatment, or any other number of scenarios. But Medical malpractice claims are very difficult to pursue. Most medical malpractice cases involve numerous expert medical witnesses and complicated facts.
Secondly, this thesis deals with ‘informed consent and arbitrary medical treatment’. Informed consent is the process by which a fully informed patient can participate in choices about their health care. It originates from the legal and ethical right the patient has to direct what happens to their body and from the ethical duty of the physician to involve the patient in their health care. Moreover, I evaluate sex change operations. Transsexualism is an emotionally crippling disease that impinges on all developmental stages.
Finally this thesis researches ‘terminal medical treatment and criminal law’. That is ‘definition of death’, ‘organ transplantation law’ and ‘death with dignity’.