Sozialrecht als öffentliches Wirtschaftsrecht

Stephan Rixen examines the highly-regulated »health care market«, a branch which has been greatly influenced by the standards imposed by public law and in which the spheres of freedom given to service performers (doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, physiotherapists, midwives etc.) have been restricted considerably for »social« reasons. In this work, the author develops new constitutional and administrative law distinctions which strengthen the fundamental rights of health care professionals. He opts for a specific legal and economic approach which defines the implementation of social health care policies as an integral part of economic regulation by public law.