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The global health crisis: ethical responsibilities

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge bioethics and law | Cambridge bioethics and lawPublication details: London Cambridge University Press 2017Description: xv, 293pISBN:
  • 9781107190351
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.2 C2G5
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. Reframes the mainstream concept of 'global justice' around the natural law ideas of commutative justice and common good Proposes a new way to frame and discuss institutional reform proposals addressing the problem of neglected diseases, based on the theological/philosophical distinction between justice and benevolence Will appeal to those who are uncomfortable with globalism/cosmopolitanism http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/medico-legal-bioethics-and-health-law/global-health-crisis-ethical-responsibilities#tqZgHPGvgM0VAjME.99
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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.

Reframes the mainstream concept of 'global justice' around the natural law ideas of commutative justice and common good
Proposes a new way to frame and discuss institutional reform proposals addressing the problem of neglected diseases, based on the theological/philosophical distinction between justice and benevolence
Will appeal to those who are uncomfortable with globalism/cosmopolitanism



http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/medico-legal-bioethics-and-health-law/global-health-crisis-ethical-responsibilities#tqZgHPGvgM0VAjME.99

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