The global health crisis : ethical responsibilities / Thana Cristina de Campos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campos, Thana Cristina de, author.

Series:

Cambridge bioethics and law.

Cambridge bioethics and law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World health.

Public health--Moral and ethical aspects.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Proposing a new view of global justice based on natural law, this book presents a discussion of the key ethical values in contemporary medicine and health, notably in relation to neglected diseases like malaria, Ebola and Zika. The lack of treatments for such diseases point to a global health crisis. Thana Cristina de Campos provides a general framework, based on global commutative justice, for discussion of the ethical responsibilities of international stakeholders, mapping the varying duties they have, and their content and force. She also addresses the urgent need for reforms to the international legal rules on bioethics, notably the system of intellectual property rights. These ideas will be of interest to those who are looking for a more nuanced view of the human right to health than that provided by advocates in the globalist mainstream.

Contents:

The moral value of health : health as a basic human need

The human right to health and its corresponding responsibilities

States and natural persons as subjects of justice

Pharmaceutical transnational corporations as subjects of justice

The global health governance of the global health crisis.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2017).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-108-11774-0

1-108-11894-1

1-108-11914-X

1-108-11934-4

1-108-12014-8

1-108-10535-1

1-108-11954-9