Justice, Solidarity, and Global Health - From Globalisation to Collaboration

Articulating a call for justice in the context of global health, this fascinating book responds to the uncertainties, inequalities and conflicts highlighted through the COVID-19 pandemic by arguing that everyone, no matter where they live, is entitled to at least a basic level of healthcare.
Moreover, this entitlement generates a range of duties that all persons have obligations to fulfil. Grounded in Henry Shue's "basic rights" framework, the book explores what we must do individually and collectively to meet the needs of, and fulfil our responsibilities to, other people. Examining the individual, public, and global health consequences of excluding certain people through a rigid enforcement of narrowly defined group boundaries, it illustrates the uneven global distribution of the vital health goods while highlighting the close epidemiological and economic relationships that exist between even distant persons. The book thus offers both an ethical and deeply practical response to the complex challenges of our increasingly globalized world.
Erudite and important, this is a book that will interest students and scholars across disciplines, from Public Health to Philosophy to Bioethics to International Relations.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Justifying Duties to Care for the Health of Other People 3. Ideal Cosmopolitan Solidarity and the Relationality of Health 4. The Duty to Avoid Depriving: Essential Medicines, the TRIPS Regime, and Pandemic Disease 5. The Duty to Protect from Deprivation: Caring About Non-Deliberate Harms During a Pandemic 6. The Duty to Aid the Deprived: Priority Setting in Response to Deprivation 7. Exclusionary Solidarity and Global Health 8. Conclusion

About the author

Peter West-Oram is a lecturer in Bioethics at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, UK

Product details

• Authors: Peter West-Oram
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.04.2026
• EAN: 9781032571782
• ISBN: 978-1-032-57178-2
• No. of pages: 222
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Health Policy, MEDICAL / Public Health, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, International Relations, Personal & public health, Development Studies, Medical Sociology, Personal and public health / health education