Global Health
Ethical Challenges

Offers theoretical and practical guidance for addressing global health, and a deeper understanding of the challenges humanity faces.

Solomon Benatar (Edited by), Gillian Brock (Edited by)

9781108728713, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 February 2021

510 pages
24.4 x 18.9 x 2.4 cm, 1.09 kg

'… highly recommended for upper-level undergraduates, graduates, and professional audiences from all disciplines.' Diane Martinez, Technical Communication

Addressing global health is one of the largest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, however, this task is becoming even more formidable with the accelerated destruction of the planet. Building on the success of the previous edition, the book outlines how progress towards improving global health relies on understanding its core social, economic, political, environmental and ideological aspects. A multi-disciplinary group of authors suggest not only theoretically compelling arguments for what we must do, but also provide practical recommendations as to how we can promote global health despite contemporary constraints. The importance of cross-cultural dialogue and utilisation of ethical tools in tackling global health problems is emphasised. Thoroughly updated, new or expanded topics include: mass displacement of people; novel threats, including new infectious diseases; global justice; and ecological ethics and planetary sustainability. Offering a diverse range of perspectives, this volume is essential for bioethicists, public health practitioners and philosophers.

Introduction
Section 1. Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions: 1. State of global health in a radically unequal world: patterns and prospects
2. Societal determinants and determinants of health
3. Strengthening the global response to infectious disease threats in the 21st century
4. Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter?
5. Health systems and health and health care reform
Section 2. Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities and Justice: Some Central Issues: 6. Is there a need for global health ethics? For and against
7. The human right to health
8. International human rights law and the social determinants of health
9. Responsibility for global health
10. Bioethics and global child health
Section 3. Analysing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them: 11. Trade and health: the ethics of global rights, regulation and redistribution
12. Debt, structural adjustment and health
13. The international arms trade and global health
14. Allocating resources in humanitarian medicine
15. Development assistance for health: trends and challenges
16. Geopolitics, disease and inequalities in emerging economies
17. Neoliberalism, power relations, ethics and global health
18. Morbid symptoms, organic crisis and enclosures of the commons: global health since the 2008 world economic crisis
19. Challenging the global extractive order: a global health justice imperative
Section 4. Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health: 20. The environment, ethics and health
21. Ecological ethics, planetary sustainability and global health
22. Mass migration and health in the Anthropocen epoch
23. Animals, the environment and global health
24. Justice and global health: a planetary perspective
Section 5. The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue: 25. Global health and ethical transculturalism: a methodology connecting the East and the West, the local and the universal
26. Giving voice to African thought in medical research ethic
27. Inter-philosophies dialogue: creating a paradigm for global health ethics
28. Reframing global health ethics using ecological, Indigenous and regenerative lenses
Section 6. Shaping the Future: 29. Global health research changing the agenda
30. Justice and research in developing countries
31. The Health Impact Fund: how to make new medicines accessible to all
32. Evaluating global health impact and increasing access to essential medicine
33. Philanthrocapitalism and global health
34. BIg data, artificial intelligence for global health: ethical challenges and opportunities
35. Global governance for developing sustainability
36. Teaching global health ethics
37. Teaching global health ethics: an ecological perspective
38. Towards a new common sense: the need for new paradigms for global health.

Subject Areas: Medical sociology [MBS], Medicolegal issues [MBQ], Health psychology [MBNH9], Public health & preventive medicine [MBN], Medical ethics & professional conduct [MBDC]