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Law and Global Health is the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series. It contains a broad range of articles from scholars and public health experts dicussing the interaction between law and public health in low-, middle- and high-income countries.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Keynote
- Part A: A Right to Health
- 1: Charles Foster and Jonathan Herring: What is health
- 2: Kent Buse, Lawrence Gostin and Eric Friedman: Pathways towards a framework convention on global health: political mobilization for the human right to health
- 3: George Annas: The bloodless ideological supreme court battle over the affordable care act and the 'right to health' in America
- 4: Maria Stutaford: Conceptualising Implementation of the Right to Health: the Learning Network for Health and Human Rights, Western Cape, South Africa
- 5: John Harrington: Access to essential medicines in Kenya: intellectual property, anti-counterfeiting and the right to health
- Part B: Vulnerable Populations
- 6: Belinda Bennett and Terry Carney: Vulnerability: an issue for law and policy in pandemic planning?
- 7: Hazel Biggs and Caroline Jones: Legally vulnerable: What is vulnerability and who is vulnerable?
- 8: Sylvie Da Lomba: The ECHR, Health Care and Irregular Migrants
- 9: David Patterson, Shereen El Feki and Khadija Moalla: Rights-based Approaches to HIV in the Middle East and North Africa Region
- 10: Mark Henaghan: Indigenous people, emerging research and global health
- 11: Daniel Sperling: Human Trafficking and Organ Trade: Does the Law Really Care for the Health of People?
- 12: Kerry Petersen: Cross Border Commercial Surrogacy: A global patchwork of inconsistency and confusion
- 13: Judith Bueno De Mesquita: Maternal mortality and human rights: from theory to practice
- 14: Maya Sabatello: Disability, human rights and global health: past, present and future
- 15: Kristine Hessler: What can human rights do for women's health?
- 16: Jacquineau Azetsop: The practice of uvulectomy in Chad, children's rights and public health challenges
- Part C: Ethical Issues
- 17: Florencia Luna: Adding non-ideal agents to work out a pending debt
- 18: Michal Engelman: Global ageing: Demographic and ethical challenges to population health and development policies
- 19: Stephen Holland: Libertarian paternalism and public health nudges
- 20: John Coggon: Global health, law and ethics: Fragmented sovereignty and the limits of universal theory
- 21: Paula Braveman: - International human rights laws and principles: cornerstone for defining health inequalities and health equity
- 22: Sara Fovargue: Exposing the limits of the law? Biotechnological challenges to global health
- 23: Gwendolyn Majette: Global Health Law Norms: A Coherent Framework to Understand PPACA's Approach to Eliminate Health Disparities and Address Implementation Challenges
- 24: George P Smith: Global health law: aspirational, paradoxical or oxymoronic?
- 25: Tom Faunce, Anton Wasson and Kim Crow: Environmental sustainability and global health law: the case study of global artificial photosynthesis
- 26: Scott Burris: Bridging the health/law divide in global health: The role of law professors
- 27: Geoffrey B. Cockerham and William C. Cockerham: International law and global health
- Part D: Governance
- 28: Colin McInnes and Roemer Mahler: Competitition and co-operation in global health governance: the impact of multiple framing
- 29: Hadii M. Mamadu: The interlocking world of global health governance: the tobacco industry, bilateral investment treaties and health policy
- 30: Obijiofor Aginam: Mission (im)possible? WHO as a 'norm entrepreneur' in global health governance
- 31: Meri Koivasulo and Nicola Watt: Policy space for health in the context of emerging European trade policies
- 32: Benjamin Mason Meier: An agenda for normative policy analysis in global health governance
- 33: Erik Millstone: The contributions of science and politics to global food safety law
About the author
Belinda Bennett is Professor of Health and Medical Law at the University of Sydney. She researches on legal regulation of biomedicine and on the impact of globalisation on health law.
Michael Freeman is Professor Emeritus of English Law at UCL. He is Editor of this series, editor of the International Journal of Children's Rights, and author of The Ethics of Public Health, Ashgate, 2010. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Sarah Hawkes is Reader in Global Health at the Institute for Global Health, UCL, and a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in International Public Engagement.
Summary
Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice.
Law and Global Health, the sixteenth volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the scholarship examining the relationship between global health and the law. Covering a wide range of areas from all over the world, articles in the volume look at areas of human rights, vulnerable populations, ethical issues, legal responses and governance.
