Global Health
Global Health Ethical Challenges Second Edition
Available Now 2021, 244 x 189 mm, 510 pp 9781108728713 | Paperback (also available as an eBook)
Edited by Solomon Benatar, University of Cape Town Gillian Brock, University of Auckland
Building on the success of the previous edition, the book outlines how progress towards improving global health relies on understanding its core social, economic, political, environmental and ideological aspects. A multi-disciplinary group of authors suggest not only theoretically compelling arguments for what we must do, but also provide practical recommendations as to how we can promote global health despite contemporary constraints. The importance of cross-cultural dialogue and utilisation of ethical tools in tackling global health problems is emphasised. Thoroughly updated, new or expanded topics include: mass displacement of people; novel threats, including new infectious diseases; global justice; and ecological ethics and planetary sustainability. •
Provides a broad perspective on global health challenges over the next twenty-five years and beyond, including both East/West and North/South comparative perspectives
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Considers health from many different disciplines – including medicine, public health, philosophy, social science, political science, anthropology, health policy, law, humanitarianism, educational pedagogy and environmental science – making it an excellent resource for a wide range of audiences
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Offers approaches to thinking about the ethical implications of living on a threatened planet, helping readers to consider their role as global citizens at a crucial time in human and planetary history
Contents Introduction; Section 1. Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions: 1. State of global health in a radically unequal world: patterns and prospects; 2. Societal determinants and determination of health 3. Strengthening the global response to infectious disease threats in the 21st century, with a COVID-19 Epilogue; 4. Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter?; 5. Health systems and health and healthcare reform; Section 2. Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities and Justice: Some Central Issues: 6. Is there a need for global health ethics? For and against; 7. The human right to health; 8. International human rights law and the social determinants of health; 9. Responsibility for global health; 10. Bioethics and global child health; Section 3. Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them: 11. Trade and health: the ethics of global rights, regulation and redistribution; 12. Debt, structural adjustment, and health; 13. The international arms trade and global health; 14. Allocating resources in humanitarian medicine; 15. Development assistance for health: trends and challenges; 16. Geopolitics, disease and inequalities in emerging economies; 17. Neoliberalism, power relations, ethics and global health; 18. Morbid symptoms, organic crises and enclosures of the commons: global health since the 2008 world economic crisis; 19. Challenging the global extractive order: a global health justice imperative; Section 4. Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health: 20. The environment, ethics and health; 21. Ecological ethics, planetary sustainability and global health; 22. Mass migration and health in the Anthropocene epoch; 23. Animals, the environment and global health; 24. Justice and global health: a planetary perspective; Section 5. The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue: 25. Global health and ethical transculturalism: a methodology connecting the East and the West, the local and the universal; 26. Giving voice to African thought in medical research ethics; 27. Interphilosophies dialogue: creating a paradigm for global health ethics; 28. Reframing global health ethics using ecological, Indigenous and regenerative lenses; Section 6. Shaping the Future: 29. Global health research: changing the agenda; 30. Justice and research in developing countries; 31. The Health Impact Fund: how to make new medicines accessible to all; 32. Evaluating global health impact and increasing access to essential medicine; 33. Philanthrocapitalism and global health; 34. Big data and artificial intelligence for global health: ethical challenges and opportunities; 35. Global health governance for developing sustainability; 36. Teaching global health ethics; 37. Teaching global health ethics: an ecological perspective; 38. Towards a new common sense: the need for new paradigms for global health beyond the COVID-19 emergency.
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