Global Health

Herausgeber: Benatar, Solomon; Brock, Gillian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering analysis of and recommendations for addressing global health, this book contributes to solving one of humanity's most important challenges. It includes perspectives from a range of disciplines, as well as ethical and environmental considerations, making it a key resource for bioethicists, public health practitioners and philosophers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1086g
• ISBN-13: 9781108728713
• ISBN-10: 1108728715
• Artikelnr.: 60550936

Inhaltsangabe

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.