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Abstract
Law and Medicine are two very distinct and different sectors. Beyond the court room and hospital, there are frequent interactions between legal and medical professionals in a friendly discussion regarding the beautiful relation of law and medicine. Due to the changing times and radical transformation in the society, they now have interlinked themselves and go hand in hand. Both the topics have expanded and related in more than the conventional needs in the changing times. For decades, the plight of people against unfair healthcare access has resulted in regulations and compliance laws that have ensure the right to healthcare of the citizens it not breached or exploited thereof. The paper intends to give an overview of the various ways in which law and medicine meet. The interlink between the two notably different domains can be seen in the form of guiding principles for medical practitioners, pharmaceutical guidelines in terms of intellectual property rights, research funding, forensic use, and in health regulatory laws such as reproductive technology, assisted death, organ and blood donation and access to it. The paper has successfully achieved its intention to highlight the linkage of law and medicine with suitable landmark case laws that have shown the path towards the need to study the expanding medical and health laws. The dynamic relation between law and medicine is bound to grow more in the future.
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Copyright © 2024 Yashodhara Pattanaik. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
