A Capability Approach to Global Health

Iain Law is a senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. He works primarily in moral philosophy. He has published on autonomy, happiness and well-being, and on the concepts of health, disease and illness. He has a long-standing research interest in the relationship between morality, character and well-being, focussing on the interrelationship between aiming to do the right thing, being a good person, and leading a good/happy life. His recent publications include a paper on depression and character and another on happiness and preference-satisfaction





Heather Widdows is Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely as a moral philosopher, global ethicist (she is Lead Editor of the Journal of Global Ethics) and a bioethicist. She is well known in policy circles and is the ethicist on the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council (http://www.egcukbiobank.org.uk/). She has previously published a monograph (The Moral Vision of Iris Murdoch), two edited collections (The governance of genetic information, CUP; Women's Reproductive Rights, Palgrave) and is due to deliver in June a collection in this Routledge series with Nicola Smith on Global Social Justice. In addition she has published numerous peer-review articles and book chapters. For further details and a full list of publications see attached CV.