The Global Health Crisis
Ethical Responsibilities

Proposing a new view of global justice based on natural law, this book examines the ethics of health as they relate to neglected diseases.

Thana Cristina de Campos (Author)

9781107190351, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 March 2017

299 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.59 kg

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.

Introduction
Part I. Defining the Object: What Is a Reasonable Scope and Content for the Human Right to Health?: 1. The moral value of health: health as a basic human need
2. The human right to health and its corresponding responsibilities
Part II. Defining the Subjects: Who Are the Duty-Bearers of the Right to Health?: 3. States and natural persons as subjects of justice
4. Pharmaceutical transnational corporations as subjects of justice
Part III. Defining Just Institutions: How Should Right to Health Responsibilities Be Allocated among the Subjects of Justice?: 5. The global health governance of the global health crisis
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Medical & healthcare law [LNTM], Human rights [JPVH]