| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Part I. Global Health, Definitions and Descriptions: 1. What is global health? / Solomon Benatar and Ross Upshur; 2. The state of global health in a radically unequal world: patterns and prospects / Ronald Labonté and Ted Schrecker; 3. Addressing the societal determinants of health: the key global health ethics imperative of our times / Anne-Emmanuelle Birn; 4. Gender and global health: inequality and differences / Lesley Doyal and Sarah Payne; 5. Heath systems and health / Martin McKee -- Part II. Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities and Justice: Some Central Issues: 6. Is there a need for global health ethics?: for and against / David Hunter and Angus J. Dawson; 7. Justice, infectious disease and globalisation / Michael J. Selgelid; 8. International health inequalities and global justice: toward a middle ground / Norman Daniels; 9. The human right to health / Jonathan Wolff; 10. Responsibility for global health? / Allen Buchanan and Matthew DeCamp; 11. Global health ethics: the rationale for mutual caring / Solomon Benatar, Abdallah S. Daar and Peter A. Singer -- Part III. Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health: 12. Trade and health: the ethics of global rights, regulation and redistribution / Meri Koivusalo; 13. Debt, structural adjustment and health / Jeff Rudin and David Sanders; 14. The international arms trade and global health / Salahaddin Mahmudi-Azer; 15. Allocating resources in humanitarian medicine / Samia A. Hurst, Nathalie Mezger and Alex Mauron; 16. International aid and global health / Anthony B. Zwi; 17. Climate change and health: risks and inequities / Sharon Friel, Colin Butler and Anthony McMichael; 18. Animals, the environment and global health / David Benatar; 19. The global crisis and global health / Stephen Gill and Isabella Bakker -- Part IV. Shaping the Future: 20. The health impact fund: how to make new medicines accessible to all / Thomas Pogge; 21. Biotechnology and global health / Hassan Masun, Justin Chakma and Abdallah S. Daar; 22. Food security and global health / Lynn McIntyre and Krista Rondeau; 23. International taxation / Gillian Brock; 24. Global health research: changing the agenda / Tikki Pang; 25. Justice and research in developing countries / Alex John London; 26. Values in global health governance / Kearsley A. Stewart, Gerald T. Keusch and Arthur Kleinman; 27. Poverty, distance and two dimensions of ethics / Jonathan Glover; 28. Teaching global health ethics / James Dwyer; 29. Towards a new common sense: the need for new paradigms of global health / Isabella Bakker and Stephen Gill |
| Summary |
Provides interdisciplinary discussion of the state of global health and current challenges, and offers innovative proposals for change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World health.
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Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects
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International cooperation.
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Global Health
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Healthcare Disparities
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International Cooperation
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Public Health -- ethics
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International cooperation
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Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects
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World health
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brock, Gillian.
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| ISBN |
9780511991196 |
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0511991193 |
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9780511985621 |
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0511985622 |
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9780511994418 |
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0511994419 |
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9780511989377 |
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0511989377 |
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