Nordic Health Law in a European Context -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Foundational Issues -- Health and Human Rights in the European Context -- Right to Health as a Human Right in Europe -- The raison d'être of Nordic Health Law -- The Right to Health from a Constitutional Perspective - the Example of the Nordic Countries -- Health Law as a Legal Discipline -- The Nordic Committee on Bioethics -- Part 2 Patients' Rights -- The Development of Patients' Rights in Norway -- Still no Patients' Act in Sweden - Reasons and Implications -- Human Rights, Health Care, and Coercion in Norwegian Health Law -- Detention of Pregnant Women to Protect the Foetus - Nordiv Perspectives -- Cultural Accommodation in Health Services and European Human Rights -- Female Genital Mutilation and the Right to Privacy: a Double-edged Sword -- Infant Male Circumcision - Finnish Supreme Court Ruling on a Multicultural Legal Protection -- Mutual Recognition within the EU of the Concepts of Sickness and Incapacity for Work in a Rehabilitive Situation -- Part 3 Biomedical Science -- Human Dignity as a Legal Argument in the Era of Modern Biomedicine -- European Integration - a Case Example from European Biomedical Research Law -- The Human Body and Norwegian Property Law - Ancient and Modern -- Biobank Regulation in Finland and the Nordic Countries -- Genetic Privacy: Autonomy or Solidarity? -- Death Before Life: The Legal Status of Cadaveric Foetuses.