The Global Health Crisis

Ethical Responsibilities

Thana Cristina de Campos

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781107190351
• eBook ISBN: 9781108119146
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Medical Law
• Index: Law

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 points 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I Defining the Object: What Is a Reasonable Scope and Content for the Human Right to Health?
• Part II Defining the Subjects: Who Are the Duty-Bearers of the Right to Health?
• Part III Defining Just Institutions: How Should Right to Health Responsibilities Be Allocated among the Subjects of Justice?
• Bibliography
• Index
• Series list