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Mindra Pino Sotomayor

Facultad de Derecho - Universidad de Valparaíso - Chile

su paciente, a saber, la Ley N°19.496, la Ley N°19.966 y, primordialmente, la Ley N°20.584, sobre derechos y deberes de los pacientes, son verdaderos casos de descodificación del derecho civil.

Palabras clave:

Código Civil, Descodificación, Ley de derecho especial, Ley de derecho singular, Responsabilidad médica.

Abstract:

The advancement of science and technology has created the need to legislate in response to new social, economic, and cultural conflicts that were unthinkable at the time of codification. Accordingly, a series of statu-tes have been enacted that regulate matters already addressed by the codes or that create new legal institutions, raising the question of whether we are currently experiencing a process of decodification of private law. This term was coined by the Italian professor Natalino Irti, while in the national context, it was Alejandro Guzmán who referred to and redefined it. This paper examines the notion of decodification in light of the theories of both authors. Its objective is to analyze whether the statutes that regulate or apply to the physician–patient relationship –namely, the Act No. 19.496, Act No. 19.966 and, primarily, Act No. 20.584- constitute genuine cases of decodification of civil law.

Keywords:

Civil code, Descodification, Special law, Singular law, Medical liability.

1. INTRODUCCIÓN

En las últimas décadas ha existido un fenómeno caracterizado por la abundante dictación de leyes denominadas especiales, que pretenden hacer frente a los rápidos cambios económicos, sociales y culturales de nuestra sociedad. Es una realidad que los antiguos códigos, que pretendían abarcar