Die Selbstbestimmungsaufklärung im Arztstrafrecht

Equivalent to the entire medical criminal law, the subject “Scope and extent of doctors’ civil law duty to provide patients with information prior to treatment“ has achieved a significant expansion over the course of the last years. This is not only due to the rapid medical development opening up a wider scope of treatment opportunities. Mostly physicians, but also lawyers working in that area of the law, consistently draw attention to the hypertrophy of the duty to provide information.
The work focuses on the transfer of doctors’ civil law duty to provide patients with information prior to treatment to criminal law. Not only does the author provide a systematic and clear overview of the barely overseeable civil case law decisions, but he also shows new approaches for the area of criminal law by giving impulses for a future layout of the thresholds of the duty to provide information in criminal law by answering dogmatic criminal basic questions and discussing individual issues in detail.