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Human Rights, State Sovereignty and Medical Ethics

Author : Claude Cahn

Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Page : 317 pages

File Size : 28,91 MB

Release : 2014-10-16

Category : Law

ISBN : 9004280340

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Human Rights, State Sovereignty and Medical Ethics: Examining Struggles Around Coercive Sterilisation of Romani Women examines the mobilized use by people and groups of the international human rights law framework to move legal, policy and ultimately social change at national and local level. One particular case study is examined in detail: efforts by Romani women in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to secure legal remedy for coercive sterilization. International legal aspects of these cases are examined in detail. The book concludes by endeavouring to answer questions concerning the nature of international law and the evolution of the post-World War II international human rights framework, the structure of national sovereignty, and the potential impact of both on human autonomy.



Global Health Law

Author : Lawrence O. Gostin

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 461 pages

File Size : 26,15 MB

Release : 2014-03-31

Category : Law

ISBN : 0674369882

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The international community has made great progress in improving global health. But staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still remain, raising fundamental questions of social justice. In a book that systematically defines the burgeoning field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective global governance for health and offers a blueprint for reform, based on the principle that the opportunity to live a healthy life is a basic human right. Gostin shows how critical it is for institutions and international agreements to focus not only on illness but also on the essential conditions that enable people to stay healthy throughout their lifespan: nutrition, clean water, mosquito control, and tobacco reduction. Policies that shape agriculture, trade, and the environment have long-term impacts on health, and Gostin proposes major reforms of global health institutions and governments to ensure better coordination, more transparency, and accountability. He illustrates the power of global health law with case studies on AIDS, influenza, tobacco, and health worker migration. Today's pressing health needs worldwide are a problem not only for the medical profession but also for all concerned citizens. Designed with the beginning student, advanced researcher, and informed public in mind, Global Health Law will be a foundational resource for teaching, advocacy, and public discourse in global health.



The Sovereignty of Human Rights

Author : Patrick Macklem

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 30,92 MB

Release : 2015-08-20

Category : Law

ISBN : 019026733X

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The Sovereignty of Human Rights advances a legal theory of international human rights that defines their nature and purpose in relation to the structure and operation of international law. Professor Macklem argues that the mission of international human rights law is to mitigate adverse consequences produced by the international legal deployment of sovereignty to structure global politics into an international legal order. The book contrasts this legal conception of international human rights with moral conceptions that conceive of human rights as instruments that protect universal features of what it means to be a human being. The book also takes issue with political conceptions of international human rights that focus on the function or role that human rights plays in global political discourse. It demonstrates that human rights traditionally thought to lie at the margins of international human rights law - minority rights, indigenous rights, the right of self-determination, social rights, labor rights, and the right to development - are central to the normative architecture of the field.



The Human Right to Health (Norton Global Ethics Series)

Author : Jonathan Wolff

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 171 pages

File Size : 15,41 MB

Release : 2012-02-20

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0393083292

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“A broad-ranging, insightful analysis of the complex practical and ethical issues involved in global health.”—Kirkus Reviews Few topics in human rights have inspired as much debate as the right to health. Proponents would enshrine it as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of speech and freedom from torture. Detractors suggest that the movement constitutes an impractical over-reach. Jonathan Wolff cuts through the ideological stalemate to explore both views. In an accessible, persuasive voice, he explores the philosophical underpinnings of the idea of a human right, assesses whether health meets those criteria, and identifies the political and cultural realities we face in attempts to improve the health of citizens in wildly different regions. Wolff ultimately finds that there is a path forward for proponents of the right to health, but to succeed they must embrace certain intellectual and practical changes. The Human Right to Health is a powerful and important contribution to the discourse on global health.



Human Rights in Global Health

Author : Benjamin Mason Meier

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 617 pages

File Size : 21,91 MB

Release : 2018-03-27

Category : Law

ISBN : 0190672706

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Institutions matter for the advancement of human rights in global health. Given the dramatic development of human rights under international law and the parallel proliferation of global institutions for public health, there arises an imperative to understand the implementation of human rights through global health governance. This volume examines the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, studying an expansive set of health challenges through a multi-sectoral array of global organizations. To analyze the structural determinants of rights-based governance, the organizations in this volume include those international bureaucracies that implement human rights in ways that influence public health in a globalizing world. This volume brings together leading health and human rights scholars and practitioners from academia, non-governmental organizations, and the United Nations system. They explore the foundations of human rights as a normative framework for global health governance, the mandate of the World Health Organization to pursue a human rights-based approach to health, the role of inter-governmental organizations across a range of health-related human rights, the influence of rights-based economic governance on public health, and the focus on global health among institutions of human rights governance. Contributing chapters each map the distinct human rights efforts within a specific institution of global governance for health. Through the comparative institutional analysis in this volume, the contributing authors examine institutional dynamics to operationalize human rights in organizational policies, programs, and practices and assess institutional factors that facilitate or inhibit human rights mainstreaming for global health advancement.



The Responsibility to Protect

Author : International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Publisher : IDRC

Page : 432 pages

File Size : 22,19 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Law

ISBN : 9780889369634

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Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty



Old Law, New Medicine

Author : Sheila McLean

Publisher : Pandora Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 27,23 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Bioethics

ISBN : 9780863584022

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1. Setting the scene



Health, Human Rights and Ethics

Author : Ramesh Kumar Sangwan

Publisher :

Page : 218 pages

File Size : 11,28 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9788131609118

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The survival and evolution of the human race is linked with the health of individuals and the population at large. All over the world, the concepts of the right to health and medical ethics have recently emerged from the ever-growing consciousness about the dignity of human life. The right to health and health care are the new aspirations of the people. Health rights are exercised by people who use health services, and medical ethics are reflected in the professional performance of doctors while delivering health services. Since patients are becoming increasingly aware of their health rights, doctors have to be conversant with basic ethical issues involved in medical practice. This book offers the most incisive, compelling analysis of the rights and ethics of health care in different hospital settings. It analyzes the concepts of rights and ethics in both private and government hospital settings. Health, Human Rights and Ethics will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, historians, legal experts, public and private health practitioners, and policy makers. [Subject: Health Studies, Human Rights, Sociology, Medical Ethics]





The Heart of Human Rights

Author : Allen Buchanan

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 331 pages

File Size : 13,14 MB

Release : 2013-10-23

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0199325391

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This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. It is international human rights law--not any philosophical theory of moral human rights or any "folk" conception of moral human rights--that serves as the lingua franca of modern human rights practice. Yet contemporary philosophers have had little to say about international legal human rights. They have tended to assume, rather than to argue, that international legal human rights, if morally justified, must mirror or at least help realize moral human rights. But this assumption is mistaken. International legal human rights, like many other legal rights, can be justified by several different types of moral considerations, of which the need to realize a corresponding moral right is only one. Further, this volume shows that some of the most important international legal human rights cannot be adequately justified by appeal to corresponding moral human rights. The problem is that the content of these international legal human rights--the full set of correlative duties--is much broader than can be justified by appealing to the morally important interests of any individual. In addition, it is necessary to examine the legitimacy of the institutions that create, interpret, and implement international human rights law and to defend the claim that international human rights law should "trump" the domestic law of even the most admirable constitutional democracies.