Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue

Normative Profile, Conflicts and Implementation

426 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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).

• Reihe: Menschenrechte in der Medizin / Human Rights in Healthcare
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Soziale und ethische Themen Soziale Aspekte
• ISBN: 9783837640540
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.11.2017
• Größe: 22.5 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: transcript
• Herausgegeben von: Sabine Klotz, Heiner Bielefeldt, Martina Schmidhuber, Andreas Frewer