Law and Global Health

Herausgeber: Freeman, Michael; Bennett, Belinda; Hawkes, Sarah

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Produktbeschreibung

Law and Global Health is the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series. It contains a broad range of articles from scholars and public health experts dicussing the interaction between law and public health in low-, middle- and high-income countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 662
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1148g
• ISBN-13: 9780199688999
• ISBN-10: 0199688990
• Artikelnr.: 39395763

Autorenporträt

Belinda Bennett is Professor of Health and Medical Law at the University of Sydney. She researches on legal regulation of biomedicine and on the impact of globalisation on health law. Michael Freeman is Professor Emeritus of English Law at UCL. He is Editor of this series, editor of the International Journal of Children's Rights, and author of The Ethics of Public Health, Ashgate, 2010. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Sarah Hawkes is Reader in Global Health at the Institute for Global Health, UCL, and a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in International Public Engagement.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Keynote
* Part A: A Right to Health
* 1: Charles Foster and Jonathan Herring: What is health
* 2: Kent Buse, Lawrence Gostin and Eric Friedman: Pathways towards a
framework convention on global health: political mobilization for the
human right to health
* 3: George Annas: The bloodless ideological supreme court battle over
the affordable care act and the 'right to health' in America
* 4: Maria Stutaford: Conceptualising Implementation of the Right to
Health: the Learning Network for Health and Human Rights, Western
Cape, South Africa
* 5: John Harrington: Access to essential medicines in Kenya:
intellectual property, anti-counterfeiting and the right to health
* Part B: Vulnerable Populations
* 6: Belinda Bennett and Terry Carney: Vulnerability: an issue for law
and policy in pandemic planning?
* 7: Hazel Biggs and Caroline Jones: Legally vulnerable: What is
vulnerability and who is vulnerable?
* 8: Sylvie Da Lomba: The ECHR, Health Care and Irregular Migrants
* 9: David Patterson, Shereen El Feki and Khadija Moalla: Rights-based
Approaches to HIV in the Middle East and North Africa Region
* 10: Mark Henaghan: Indigenous people, emerging research and global
health
* 11: Daniel Sperling: Human Trafficking and Organ Trade: Does the Law
Really Care for the Health of People?
* 12: Kerry Petersen: Cross Border Commercial Surrogacy: A global
patchwork of inconsistency and confusion
* 13: Judith Bueno De Mesquita: Maternal mortality and human rights:
from theory to practice
* 14: Maya Sabatello: Disability, human rights and global health: past,
present and future
* 15: Kristine Hessler: What can human rights do for women's health?
* 16: Jacquineau Azetsop: The practice of uvulectomy in Chad,
children's rights and public health challenges
* Part C: Ethical Issues
* 17: Florencia Luna: Adding non-ideal agents to work out a pending
debt
* 18: Michal Engelman: Global ageing: Demographic and ethical
challenges to population health and development policies
* 19: Stephen Holland: Libertarian paternalism and public health nudges
* 20: John Coggon: Global health, law and ethics: Fragmented
sovereignty and the limits of universal theory
* 21: Paula Braveman: - International human rights laws and principles:
cornerstone for defining health inequalities and health equity
* 22: Sara Fovargue: Exposing the limits of the law? Biotechnological
challenges to global health
* 23: Gwendolyn Majette: Global Health Law Norms: A Coherent Framework
to Understand PPACA's Approach to Eliminate Health Disparities and
Address Implementation Challenges
* 24: George P Smith: Global health law: aspirational, paradoxical or
oxymoronic?
* 25: Tom Faunce, Anton Wasson and Kim Crow: Environmental
sustainability and global health law: the case study of global
artificial photosynthesis
* 26: Scott Burris: Bridging the health/law divide in global health:
The role of law professors
* 27: Geoffrey B. Cockerham and William C. Cockerham: International law
and global health
* Part D: Governance
* 28: Colin McInnes and Roemer Mahler: Competitition and co-operation
in global health governance: the impact of multiple framing
* 29: Hadii M. Mamadu: The interlocking world of global health
governance: the tobacco industry, bilateral investment treaties and
health policy
* 30: Obijiofor Aginam: Mission (im)possible? WHO as a 'norm
entrepreneur' in global health governance
* 31: Meri Koivasulo and Nicola Watt: Policy space for health in the
context of emerging European trade policies
* 32: Benjamin Mason Meier: An agenda for normative policy analysis in
global health governance
* 33: Erik Millstone: The contributions of science and politics to
global food safety law