Global Health and Global Health Ethics
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Global Health and Global Health Ethics by Solomon Benatar
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.
'A key text that is helping to define the subfield of global health ethics … it is a subfield with substantial promise, which Benatar and Brock's collection has helped to realise' Philosophical Papers
'A keen analysis of several determinants of ill health examin[ing] crucial issues of our day, such as international arms trading, the crippling debt of poor countries, and civil war, as well as their global health implications. Benatar and Brock outline and evaluate several high profile approaches to improving the status of health around the world.' Health and Human Rights Journal
'A keen analysis of several determinants of ill health examin[ing] crucial issues of our day, such as international arms trading, the crippling debt of poor countries, and civil war, as well as their global health implications. Benatar and Brock outline and evaluate several high profile approaches to improving the status of health around the world.' Health and Human Rights Journal
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. Gillian Brock is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521146777 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521146771 |
| Title | Global Health and Global Health Ethics |
| Author | Solomon Benatar |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2011-02-10 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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