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 and distributive justice: programmatic worries, Norman Daniels; The right to a decent minimum of health care, Allen E. Buchanan; Broadening the bioethics agenda, Dan W. Brock; The dark side of human rights, Onora O'Neill; Exploring the philosophical foundations of the human rights approach to international public health ethics, Kristen Hessler. Part II Links Between Health and Human Rights: Health and human rights, Jonathan M. Mann, Lawrence Gostin, Sofia Gruskin, Troyen Brennan, Zita Lazzarini and Harvey Fineberg; Health and human rights, Sofia Gruskin and Daniel Tarantola. Part III Global Bioethics and Public Health Ethics: Human rights, Stephen P. Marks; Medicine and public health, ethics and human rights, Jonathan M. Mann; Bioethics and international human rights, David C. Thomasma; Global disparities in health and human rights: a critical commentary, Solomon R. Benatar; The lingua franca of human rights and the rise of a global bioethic, Lori P. Knowles; New malaise: bioethics and human rights in the global era, Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos; Improving global health: counting reasons why, Michael J. Selgelid. Part IV Intellectual Property Rights in Pharmaceuticals: Patents and medicines: the relationship between TRIPS and the human right to health, Philippe Cullet; Affordable access to essential medication in developing countries: conflicts between ethical and economic imperatives, Udo SchA1/4klenk and Richard E. Ashcroft; Patents and access to drugs in developing countries: an ethical analysis, Sigrid Sterckx; Medicines for the world: boosting innovation without obstructing free access, Thomas Pogge. Part V Health Rights in Context: HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Gender: Human rights and public health ethics: responding to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, Jonathan Cohen, Nancy Kass and Chris Beyrer; Structural barriers and human rights related to HIV prevention and treatment in Zimbabwe, J.J. Amon and T. Kasambala; Tuberculosis control and directly observed therapy from the public health/human rights perspective, A.K. Hurtig, J.D.H. Porter and J.A. Ogden; Gender, health and human rights, Rebecca J. Cook; The incompatibility of the United Nations' goals and conventionalist ethical relativism, Loretta M. Kopelman; Name index.