Name: Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue
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Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue

Edited by: Sabine Klotz, Edited by: Heiner Bielefeldt, Edited by: Martina Schmidhuber, Edited by: Andreas Frewer

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Published: 17-Nov-2017
ISBN: 9783837640540

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426 Pages

Subjects:
Illness & addiction: social aspects
Medical sociology
Human rights
Medical ethics & professional conduct
Social & political philosophy
Law
Law & society
Ethics & moral philosophy
Philosophy
Bio-ethics
Central government policies
Politics & government
Sociology
Social welfare & social services
Nursing

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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).

Sabine Klotz (Dipl.-Pol.) ist Mitarbeiterin im Kraft-Stiftungs-Projekt »Menschenrechte und Ethik in der Medizin für Ältere« an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Heiner Bielefeldt, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. , lehrt Menschenrechte und Menschenrechtspolitik an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Martina Schmidhuber (PD Dr. phil. fac. theol.) ist Privatdozentin an der Professur für Ethik in der Medizin an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Andreas Frewer (Prof. Dr. med., M.A.) ist Professor für Ethik in der Medizin an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg und European Master in Bioethics. Er leitet die Geschäftsstelle des Klinischen Ethikkomitees in Erlangen (UKER) und ist u.a. Senior Advisory Consultant der World Health Organization (WHO).