Jehovah's Witnesses Patients’s Human Rights and Mandatory Blood Transfusion in Judicial Decisions in Brazil
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019), Article
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019)

Jehovah's Witnesses Patients’s Human Rights and Mandatory Blood Transfusion in Judicial Decisions in Brazil

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https://doi.org/10.29327/2193997.1.1-6
Published 2019-05-22
Denise Gonçalves de Araújo Mello Paranhos
Federal Justice - GO
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4956-2314
Aline Albuquerque Sant'anna de Oliveira
Advocacia Geral da União
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Keywords

Human Rights of Patients
European Court of Human Rights
Brazilian Judicial Court
Jehovah's Witness patient
blood transfusion

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Paranhos, D. G. de A. M., & Oliveira, A. A. S. de. (2019). Jehovah’s Witnesses Patients’s Human Rights and Mandatory Blood Transfusion in Judicial Decisions in Brazil. Journal of Brazilian Federal District Public Defensorship, 1(1), 85–94. https://doi.org/10.29327/2193997.1.1-6
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The aim of this article is, based on the Human Rights of Patients reference and the position of the European Court of Human Rights, to problematize the use of the rights to life and privacy in blood transfusion of Jehovah's Witnesses patients, through the analysis of decisions handed down by Brazilian Judicial Courts. Methodologically, it was carried out a study of the literature on HRP, the analysis of decisions made by the European Court and the Brazilian jurisprudence on the subject. It has been concluded that HRP are adequate to support court decisions in cases involving Jehovah's Witness patients and the request for a forced blood transfusion.

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