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Law and global health /

'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 discussing the interaction between law and public health in low-, and middle- and high-income countries.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Freeman, Michael D. A. (Editor ), Hawkes, Sarah (Editor ), Bennett, Belinda (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Colección:Current legal issues ; v. 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Law and Global Health: Current Legal Issues
  • Copyright
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Global Health: An Introduction
  • Keynote Address: Justice and Global Health
  • PART A: RIGHT TO HEALTH
  • 1: What is Health?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Assumption 1: It Makes Sense to See Ourselves as Atomistic, Static Entities
  • 3. Assumption 2: Health is an Entirely Personal, Subjective Quality
  • ""4. Assumption 3: That the Desirable Norm is a Capacitous, Invulnerable Human, and Accordingly that Incapacity and Vulnerability """"5. So What?""; ""5.1 Making the â€?leakinessâ€? principle work: general considerations""; ""5.2 Healthcare resource allocation""; ""5.3 Leaky humans, leaky confidences""; ""5.4 Leaky skins and shared parts""; ""6. Conclusion""; ""2: Pathways Towards a Framework Convention on Global Health: Political Mobilization for the Human Right to Health""; ""1. Decade of Global Health: Progress Marred by Persistent Inequalities""
  • 2. The Joint Action and Learning Initiative on National and Global Responsibilities for Health2.1 What are the services and goods guaranteed to every person under the human right to health?
  • 2.2 What responsibilities do states have for the health of the populations residing in their jurisdiction?
  • 2.3 What duties do states owe to people beyond their borders in securing the right to health?
  • 2.4 What kinds of global governance for health are needed to ensure that all states live up to their mutual responsibilities?
  • ""3. The Arduous Pathway for a Framework Convention: Strong Resistance Lies Ahead""""4. Public Health and International Law: The Role of Transnational Advocacy Coalitions""; ""5. Fomenting Change: The Role of Interests, Ideas, and Institutions""; ""5.1 Interests""; ""5.2 Ideas""; ""5.3 Institutions""; ""6. Conclusions""; ""3: The Bloodless Ideological Supreme Court Battle over the Affordable Care Act and the â€?Right to Healthâ€? in America""; ""1. Could the Argument have Gone Better?""; ""2. The Argument against the Mandate""; ""3. What about People Who Need Health Care?""
  • 4. The Supreme Court Rules5. The Commerce Clause
  • 6. Federal Power to Tax
  • 7. Indirect Federal Regulation via Conditional Federal Spending
  • 8. Federalism
  • 9. Unanswered Questions
  • 10. The Near Future
  • 4: Conceptualizing Implementation of the Right to Health: The Learning Network for Health and Human Rights, Western Cape, South Africa
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conceptual Framework
  • 3. The Learning Network
  • 4. Discussion
  • 4.1 Sites for health rights
  • 4.2 Gendered approaches
  • 4.3 Spheres of influence
  • 4.4 Adult learning