Failure to provide aid in healthcare

The subject of this thesis is a comprehensive analysis of the specifics of the crime of failure to provide aid in the healthcare, committed especially by doctors. The thesis itself is systematically divided into six chapters. The first chapter deals generally with crime of failure to provide aid. This part deals with legislation in the past and today, in detail there are also analyzed two of Acta Reus of this crime with particular emphasis on the theory of action, causality acts and omissions and some theoretical difficulties associated with this concept. Furthermore, the chapter discusses the developmental stages, the possible concurrence with other crimes, the circumstances excluding illegality, extinction of criminal liability, criminal sanctions and their demise and the interpretation of certain terms. In the second chapter, I analyze in detail the problems of general and special duties to act, their sources and issues. I do not focus only on Czech regulation, I concentrate on theory as well. The third chapter discusses the specifics of criminal responsibility in healthcare with an emphasis on interpretation of the term lex artis medicinae, and also depicts the requirement that criminal liability should stand as a means of last instance, particularly in the area of healthcare, together with a..