Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue
Normative Profile, Conflicts and Implementation
- Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2017
- 1 online resource
- Menschenrechte in der Medizin / Human Rights in Healthcare .
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).
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