Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue Normative Profile, Conflicts and Implementation

• Other Authors: Klotz, Sabine (Editor), Bielefeldt, Heiner (Editor), Schmidhuber, Martina (Editor), Frewer, Andreas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2017
• Series: Menschenrechte in der Medizin / Human Rights in Healthcare
• Subjects: Illness & addiction: social aspects; Sociology; Human Rights in Medicine; The Right to Health; Global Health; Medical Ethics; Medicine; Human; Law; Sociology of Medicine; HIV; International Covenant on Economic; Social and Cultural Rights; World Health Organization
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Summary

This book deals with various facets of the human right to health: its normative profile as a universal right, current political and legal conflicts and contextualized implementation in different healthcare systems. The authors come from different countries and disciplines - law, political science, ethics, medicine etc. - and bring together a broad variety of academic and practical perspectives. The volume contains selected contributions of the international conference "The Right to Health - an Empty Promise?" held in September 2015 in Berlin and organized by the Emerging Field Initiative Project "Human Rights in Healthcare" (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg).

ISBN

9783839440544

Access

Open Access