Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue Normative Profile, Conflicts and Implementation / Sabine Klotz, Heiner Bielefeldt, Martina Schmidhuber, Andreas Frewer. - 1 online resource (428 p.)

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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-Ní_rnberg).

9783839440544

10.14361/9783839440544




Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
Social sciences


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