МЕДИЦИНСКО ПРАВО КАО ЗАСЕБНА ГРАНА НАУКЕ
MEDICAL LAW AS A SEPARATE BRANCH OF LEGAL SCIENCE

Summary/Abstract: The author points out that, in addition to other branches of legal science, medical law is studied too at the law schools in many developed countries. However, teaching courses plans of Yugoslav law .schools do not even mention the branch of medical law. Quite a few years ago some individuals proposed the introduction of that discipline into our law schools, but they did not meet adequate understanding. The author believes that this idea is not lost forever, so that he tries to put it up again on the agenda. With this aim in mind, he primarily submits a short outline of the contents of medical law, followed by a review of most outstanding relevant problems. This should serve as a proof that this discipline has real contents and actuality. The author considers that many reasons speak in favour of studying medical law at Yugoslav law schools. He thinks that it is inconceivable that relations bétween medical workers and patients continue to remain outside the interest of the law school students. These relations are, namely, rather frequent and significant for every society. They emanate in order to meet the needs of potecting the health, namely in order to realize one of the fundamental constitutional rights of citizens. Since everybody has to request from time to time medical help, the medical law is necessary to every lawyer, to every patient, and to every physician. Therefore it is not logical that it provokes only the interest of some lawyers, when writing a paper, an article or a master's or doctoral thesis. It is high time to begin to change such situation.

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