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Health Rights
Examines ethical, legal, and empirical questions regarding the human right to health care. This title discusses what obligations health rights entail for governments and other actors, how they relate to and potentially conflict with other rights and values, and how cultural diversity bears on the formulation and implementation of health rights.
| Author(s) | By Thomas Pogge. Edited by, Michael J. Selgelid. |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 452 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 13 Oct 2010 |
| Availability | Available |
Examines ethical, legal, and empirical questions regarding the human right to health care. This title discusses what obligations health rights entail for governments and other actors, how they relate to and potentially conflict with other rights and values, and how cultural diversity bears on the formulation and implementation of health rights.
Contents: Introduction; Part I Philosophical Bases for the Right to Health and/or Healthcare: Equality and rights in medical care, Charles Fried; The right to health and the right to health care, Tom L. Beauchamp and Ruth R. Faden; Rights to health care a
Michael J. Selgelid is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Australia and Thomas Pogge, Professor, Yale University, USA and The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National Universi
