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Global Health and Global Health Ethics

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ISBN-10: 0521146771

ISBN-13: 9780521146777

Edition: 2011

Authors: Solomon Benatar, Gillian Brock

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List price: $88.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.65" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Solomon Robert Benatar is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town and Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada.

List of contributors
Introduction
Global health, definitions and descriptions
What is global health?
The state of global health in a radically unequal world: patterns and prospects
Addressing the societal determinants of health: the key global health ethics imperative of our times
Gender and global health: inequality and differences
Health systems and health
Global health ethics, responsibilities and justice: some central issues
Is there a need for global health ethics? For and against
Justice, infectious diseases and globalization
International health inequalities and global justice: toward a middle ground
The human right to health
Responsibility for global health
Global health ethics: the rationale for mutual caring
Analyzing some reasons for poor health
Trade and health: the ethics of global rights, regulation and redistribution
Debt, structural adjustment and health
The international arms trade and global health
Allocating resources in humanitarian medicine
International aid and global health
Climate change and health: risks and inequities
Animals, the environment and global health
The global crisis and global health
Shaping the future
The Health Impact Fund: how to make new medicines accessible to all
Biotechnology and global health
Food security and global health
International taxation
Global health research: changing the agenda
Justice and research in developing countries
Values in global health governance
Poverty, distance and two dimensions of ethics
Teaching global health ethics
Towards a new common sense: the need for new paradigms of global health
Index