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Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue : Normative Profile, Conflicts and Implementation / Sabine Klotz, Heiner Bielefeldt, Martina Schmidhuber, Andreas Frewer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3839440548
  • 9783839440544
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 341.481 23
LOC classification:
  • K3240 .H435 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Healthcare in the Spectrum of Human Rights. An Introduction / Bielefeldt, Heiner / Klotz, Sabine / Schmidhuber, Martina / Frewer, Andreas -- I. NORMATIVE PROFILE OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH -- The Human Right to Health / Krennerich, Michael -- The Minimum Core Approach to the Right to Health / Müller, Amrei -- Conceptualising Minimum Core Obligations under the Right to Health. How Should We Define and Implement the :Morality of the Depths9? / Forman, Lisa / Caraoshi, Luljeta / Chapman, Audrey R. / Lamprea, Everaldo -- The Right to Health and the Global Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases / Toebes, Brigit -- The Human Right to Health and Primary Health Care (PHC) Policies / Bruchhausen, Walter -- II. EMPIRICAL VULNERABILITIES AND CONFLICTS -- Using EquiFrame and EquIPP to Support and Evaluate the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals -- Conscientious Objection in the Medical Sector / Bielefeldt, Heiner -- The Implications of the Right to Health for Border Management / Flegar, Veronika / Veys, Marie-Noëlle -- Prevention of Torture and Cruel or Inhuman and Degrading Treatment in Healthcare / Es, Adriaan Van -- III. IMPLEMENTATION IN HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS -- The Right to Health and the Post-2015 Health and Sustainable Development Goal Agenda / Brolan, Claire E. -- Mapping Constitutional Commitments on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights / Pizzarossa, Lucía Berro / Perehudoff, Katrina S. -- Emergency Treatment after Potential HIV-Exposure / Wirth, Mathias -- The Case Law on the Right to Health as an Example and as a Problem / Clérico, Laura / Vita, Leticia -- IV. THERAPISTS AS ADVOCATES THE EXAMPLE OF HELEN BAMBER -- Human Rights in Practice / Witkin, Rachel -- Therapists as Advocates / Regner, Freihart / Witkin, Rachel -- Authors
Summary: 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 et cetera - 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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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Healthcare in the Spectrum of Human Rights. An Introduction / Bielefeldt, Heiner / Klotz, Sabine / Schmidhuber, Martina / Frewer, Andreas -- I. NORMATIVE PROFILE OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH -- The Human Right to Health / Krennerich, Michael -- The Minimum Core Approach to the Right to Health / Müller, Amrei -- Conceptualising Minimum Core Obligations under the Right to Health. How Should We Define and Implement the :Morality of the Depths9? / Forman, Lisa / Caraoshi, Luljeta / Chapman, Audrey R. / Lamprea, Everaldo -- The Right to Health and the Global Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases / Toebes, Brigit -- The Human Right to Health and Primary Health Care (PHC) Policies / Bruchhausen, Walter -- II. EMPIRICAL VULNERABILITIES AND CONFLICTS -- Using EquiFrame and EquIPP to Support and Evaluate the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals -- Conscientious Objection in the Medical Sector / Bielefeldt, Heiner -- The Implications of the Right to Health for Border Management / Flegar, Veronika / Veys, Marie-Noëlle -- Prevention of Torture and Cruel or Inhuman and Degrading Treatment in Healthcare / Es, Adriaan Van -- III. IMPLEMENTATION IN HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS -- The Right to Health and the Post-2015 Health and Sustainable Development Goal Agenda / Brolan, Claire E. -- Mapping Constitutional Commitments on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights / Pizzarossa, Lucía Berro / Perehudoff, Katrina S. -- Emergency Treatment after Potential HIV-Exposure / Wirth, Mathias -- The Case Law on the Right to Health as an Example and as a Problem / Clérico, Laura / Vita, Leticia -- IV. THERAPISTS AS ADVOCATES THE EXAMPLE OF HELEN BAMBER -- Human Rights in Practice / Witkin, Rachel -- Therapists as Advocates / Regner, Freihart / Witkin, Rachel -- Authors

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 et cetera - 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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