Address of the UM Rector Full Professor Zdravko Kačič 35th Conference Medicine, Law and Society, March 26, 2026, University of Maribor

Abstract

Health is one of the most profound and one of the most universal values of humanity. When health is jeopardised, the differences between countries, cultures or social systems become unimportant. What remains is only common human experience of vulnerability and the need for solidarity. This is exactly why issues of health always surpass the frames of medicine and are also becoming issues of law, ethics, society and global responsibility.