Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue: Normative Profile, Conflicts and Implementation (Human Rights in Healthcare) - Softcover

Sabine Klotz; Heiner Bielefeldt; Martina Schmidhuber; Andreas Frewer; (Hg.)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 383764054X ISBN 13: 9783837640540

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2017

Synopsis

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).

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About the Author

Sabine Klotz (Dipl.-Pol.) is researcher at the chair in Human Rights and Human Rights Politics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Heiner Bielefeldt (Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. h.c.) holds the chair in Human Rights and Human Rights Politics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2010 to 2016, he was UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief of the UN Human Rights Council. Martina Schmidhuber (Dr. phil. fac. theol.) is a research fellow at the Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg. Andreas Frewer (Prof. Dr. med., M.A.) is professor for Medical Ethics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and European Master in Bioethics. He is managing director of the Clinical Ethics Committee and various (inter-)national research projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 383764054X
• ISBN 13: 9783837640540
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 426