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xxi, 639 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Current legal issues ; v. 16.
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| Note |
Based on a international conference held at the University College, London, on July 2-3, 2012. |
| Contents |
What is health? / Charles Foster and Jonathan Herring -- Pathways towards a framework convention on global health : political mobilization for the human right to health / Kent Buse, Lawrence Gostin and Eric Friedman -- The bloodless ideological supreme court battle over the affordable care act and the 'right to health' in America / George Annas -- Conceptualising Implementation of the Right to Health : the Learning Network for Health and Human Rights, Western Cape, South Africa / Maria Stutaford -- Access to essential medicines in Kenya : intellectual property, anti-counterfeiting and the right to health / John Harrington -- Vulnerability : an issue for law and policy in pandemic planning? / Belinda Bennett and Terry Carney -- Legally vulnerable : What is vulnerability and who is vulnerable? / Hazel Biggs and Caroline Jones -- The ECHR, Health Care and Irregular Migrants / Sylvie Da Lomba -- Rights-based Approaches to HIV in the Middle East and North Africa Region / David Patterson, Shereen El Feki and Khadija Moalla -- Indigenous people, emerging research and global health / Mark Henaghan -- Human Trafficking and Organ Trade : Does the Law Really Care for the Health of People? / Daniel Sperling -- Cross Border Commercial Surrogacy : A global patchwork of inconsistency and confusion / Kerry Petersen -- Maternal mortality and human rights : from theory to practice / Judith Bueno De Mesquita -- Disability, human rights and global health : past, present and future / Maya Sabatello -- What can human rights do for women's health? / Kristine Hessler -- The practice of uvulectomy in Chad, children's rights and public health challenges / Jacquineau Azetsop -- Adding non-ideal agents to work out a pending debt / Florencia Luna -- Global ageing : Demographic and ethical challenges to population health and development policies / Michal Engelman -- Libertarian paternalism and public health nudges / Stephen Holland -- Global health, law and ethics : Fragmented sovereignty and the limits of universal theory / John Coggon -- International human rights laws and principles : cornerstone for defining health inequalities and health equity / Paula Braveman -- Exposing the limits of the law? Biotechnological challenges to global health / Sara Fovargue -- Moving forward : further reflections on global health law norms and the PPCA framework to eliminate health disparities / Gwendolyn Majette -- Global health law : aspirational, paradoxical or oxymoronic? / George P Smith -- Environmental sustainability and global health law : the case study of global artificial photosynthesis / Tom Faunce, Anton Wasson and Kim Crow -- Bridging the health/law divide in global health : The role of law professors / Scott Burris -- International law and global health / Geoffrey B. Cockerham and William C. Cockerham -- Competitition and co-operation in global health governance : the impact of multiple framing / Colin McInnes and Roemer Mahler -- The interlocking world of global health governance : the tobacco industry, bilateral investment treaties and health policy / Hadii M. Mamadu -- Mission (im)possible? WHO as a 'norm entrepreneur' in global health governance / Obijiofor Aginam -- Policy space for health in the context of emerging European trade policies / Meri Koivasulo and Nicola Watt -- An agenda for normative policy analysis in global health governance / Benjamin Mason Meier -- The contributions of science and politics to global food safety law / Erik Millstone. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Public health laws.
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World health.
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Public health laws, International.
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| Added Author |
Freeman, Michael D. A., editor.
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Hawkes, Sarah, editor.
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Bennett, Belinda, editor.
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| Standard No. |
854828301 858896012 |
| ISBN |
9780199688999 (hbk.) |
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0199688990 (hbk.) |
| OCLC # |
859556080 |
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