DOI: http://doi.org/10.47743/jss-2022-68-3-19

Abstract: The legal framework of the medical activity has evolved during the course of European law history together with the social and economic significance if these activities. In this paper, using predominantly the historical research method, we will examine some fundamental waypoints regarding the organization as legal persons of the institutions carrying out medical activities, which we generically call hospitals. Taking as a departure point the Roman era, we will discuss, using the modern optics in regard to the fundamental characteristics of a legal entity (own estate, discrete framework and specific purpose)the evolution of these legal persons with a medical purpose. Due to the limited extent of this paper, we will limit ourselves to the European legal space and to only a few of the significant evolutions in regard to the medical institutions with a legal personality.

Keywords: medical institutions, law history, legal personality, evolution

References

Brasher S.M., Hospitals and charity – Religious culture and civic life in medieval northern Italy, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2017

Bynum W., The History of Medicine – A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199215430.001.0001

Cook H.J., Medicine in Western Europe în M. Jackson (ed.), A Global History of Medicine, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018

Dross F., Their Daily Bread: Managing Hospital Finances in Early Modern Germany în L. Abreu, S. Sheard (eds.), Hospital Life – Theory and Practice From the Medieval to the Modern, Peter Lang, Bern, 2013

Floare M.I., „A Brief Overview on the Historical Beginnings of Health Law in the Broader Context of Private Law" în Studia Universitatis Babeş‑Bolyai – Iurisprudentia nr. 4/2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/SUBBiur.64(2019).4.6

Kelly K., The History of Medicine – Early Civilizations: Prehistoric Times to 500 C.E., Facts on File, New York, 2009

Leca A., Lunel A., Sanchez S., Histoire du Droit de la Santé, Les Études Hospitalières Éditions, Bordeaux, 2014

Lindemann M., Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993

Magner L.N.,  A History of Medicine, Second edition, Taylor&Francis, Boca Raton, 2005

Park K., Medicine and Society in Medieval Europe, 500‑1500,  în A. Wear (ed.), Medicine in Society – Historical Essays, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992

Risse G.B., Mending Bodies, Saving Souls – A History of Hospitals, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999

Ziegler T.A., Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions – The History of the Municipal Hospital, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/978‑3‑030‑02056‑9