Global Health Crisis - Ethical Responsibilities

Proposing a new view of global justice based on natural law, this book examines the ethics of health as they relate to neglected diseases.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Defining the Object: What Is a Reasonable Scope and Content for the Human Right to Health?: 1. The moral value of health: health as a basic human need; 2. The human right to health and its corresponding responsibilities; Part II. Defining the Subjects: Who Are the Duty-Bearers of the Right to Health?: 3. States and natural persons as subjects of justice; 4. Pharmaceutical transnational corporations as subjects of justice; Part III. Defining Just Institutions: How Should Right to Health Responsibilities Be Allocated among the Subjects of Justice?: 5. The global health governance of the global health crisis; Conclusion.

About the author

Thana Cristina de Campos is an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Common Law Section). She is also a research scholar with the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, and a research associate at the Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge, the Las Casas Institute, University of Oxford, and the Global Strategy Lab, University of Ottawa.

Summary

Proposing a new view of global justice based on natural law, this book presents a philosophical discussion of the ethical values informing contemporary medicine and health, notably in relation to the problem of neglected diseases.

Product details

• Authors: Thana Cristina de Campos, Thana Cristina (University of Ottawa) De Campos
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781316640579
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64057-9
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law; Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Human Rights, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, Human rights, civil rights, Medical & healthcare law, Medical and healthcare law