Global Health and Human Rights : Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415631624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 232 str.

John Harrington;Maria Stuttaford

Opis

This book brings together internationally renowned scholars to critically interrogate the development of rights based approaches to health. The volume integrates discussions of the right to health at a theoretical and practical level, and engages with the emerging systems of global health governance.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, John Harrington and Maria Stuttaford  2. The Place of the Human Right to Health and Contemporary Approaches to Global Justice: Some Impertinent Interrogations, Upendra Baxi  3. Developing and Applying the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health: The Role of the UN Special Rapporteur (2002-2008), Paul Hunt and Sheldon Leader  4. What Future for the Minimum Core? Contextualizing the Implications of South African Socio-Economic Rights Jurisprudence for the International Human Right to Health, Lisa Forman  5. The Ancillary-Care Responsibilities of Researchers: Reasonable But Not Great Expectations, Roger Brownsword  6. Human Rights and Health Sector Corruption, Brigit Toebes 7 . The Child’s Right to Health and the Courts, Aoife Nolan  8. The World Health Organization, the Evolution of Human Rights and the Failure to Achieve Health for All, Benjamin Mason Meier  9. The Human Right to Health in an Age of Market Hegemony, Paul O’Connell

O autorze

John Harrington is Professor of Law at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Maria Stuttaford is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Health at the University of Warwick, UK.