Global health and global health ethics / [edited by] Solomon Benatar, Gillian Brock.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Global Health, Definitions and Descriptions: 1. What is global health? / 2. The state of global health in a radically unequal world: patterns and prospects / 3. Addressing the societal determinants of health: the key global health ethics imperative of our times / 4. Gender and global health: inequality and differences / 5. Heath systems and health / Part II. Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities and Justice: Some Central Issues: 6. Is there a need for global health ethics?: for and against / 7. Justice, infectious disease and globalisation / 8. International health inequalities and global justice: toward a middle ground / 9. The human right to health / 10. Responsibility for global health? / 11. Global health ethics: the rationale for mutual caring / Part III. Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health: 12. Trade and health: the ethics of global rights, regulation and redistribution / 13. Debt, structural adjustment and health / 14. The international arms trade and global health / 15. Allocating resources in humanitarian medicine / 16. International aid and global health / 17. Climate change and health: risks and inequities / 18. Animals, the environment and global health / 19. The global crisis and global health / Part IV. Shaping the Future: 20. The health impact fund: how to make new medicines accessible to all / 21. Biotechnology and global health / 22. Food security and global health / 23. International taxation / 24. Global health research: changing the agenda / 25. Justice and research in developing countries / 26. Values in global health governance / 27. Poverty, distance and two dimensions of ethics / 28. Teaching global health ethics / 29. Towards a new common sense: the need for new paradigms of global health /

"What can be done about the poor state of global health? How are global health challenges intimately linked to the global political economy and to issues of social justice? What are our responsibilities and how can we improve global health? Global Health and Global Health Ethics addresses these questions from the perspective of a range of disciplines, including medicine, philosophy and the social sciences. Topics covered range from infectious diseases, climate change and the environment to trade, foreign aid, food security and biotechnology. Each chapter identifies the ways in which we exacerbate poor global health and discusses what we should do to remedy the factors identified. Together, they contribute to a deeper understanding of the challenges we face, and propose new national and global policies. Offering a wealth of empirical data and both practical and theoretical guidance, this is a key resource for bioethicists, public health practitioners and philosophers"--Provided by publisher

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