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Title Law and global health / edited by Michael Freeman, Sarah Hawkes, Belinda Bennett.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Current legal issues ; 16
Current legal issues ; v. 16.
Summary 'Law and Global Health' is the latest volume in the 'Current Legal Issues' series. It contains a broad range of articles from scholars and public health experts discussing the interaction between law and public health in low-, and middle- and high-income countries.
Contents ""Cover""; ""Law and Global Health: Current Legal Issues""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Global Health: An Introduction""; ""Keynote Address: Justice and Global Health""; ""PART A: RIGHT TO HEALTH""; ""1: What is Health?""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Assumption 1: It Makes Sense to See Ourselves as Atomistic, Static Entities""; ""3. Assumption 2: Health is an Entirely Personal, Subjective Quality""
""4. Assumption 3: That the Desirable Norm is a Capacitous, Invulnerable Human, and Accordingly that Incapacity and Vulnerability """"5. So What?""; ""5.1 Making the �leakiness� principle work: general considerations""; ""5.2 Healthcare resource allocation""; ""5.3 Leaky humans, leaky confidences""; ""5.4 Leaky skins and shared parts""; ""6. Conclusion""; ""2: Pathways Towards a Framework Convention on Global Health: Political Mobilization for the Human Right to Health""; ""1. Decade of Global Health: Progress Marred by Persistent Inequalities""
""2. The Joint Action and Learning Initiative on National and Global Responsibilities for Health""""2.1 What are the services and goods guaranteed to every person under the human right to health?""; ""2.2 What responsibilities do states have for the health of the populations residing in their jurisdiction?""; ""2.3 What duties do states owe to people beyond their borders in securing the right to health?""; ""2.4 What kinds of global governance for health are needed to ensure that all states live up to their mutual responsibilities?""
""3. The Arduous Pathway for a Framework Convention: Strong Resistance Lies Ahead""""4. Public Health and International Law: The Role of Transnational Advocacy Coalitions""; ""5. Fomenting Change: The Role of Interests, Ideas, and Institutions""; ""5.1 Interests""; ""5.2 Ideas""; ""5.3 Institutions""; ""6. Conclusions""; ""3: The Bloodless Ideological Supreme Court Battle over the Affordable Care Act and the �Right to Health� in America""; ""1. Could the Argument have Gone Better?""; ""2. The Argument against the Mandate""; ""3. What about People Who Need Health Care?""
""4. The Supreme Court Rules""""5. The Commerce Clause""; ""6. Federal Power to Tax""; ""7. Indirect Federal Regulation via Conditional Federal Spending""; ""8. Federalism""; ""9. Unanswered Questions""; ""10. The Near Future""; ""4: Conceptualizing Implementation of the Right to Health: The Learning Network for Health and Human Rights, Western Cape, South Africa""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Conceptual Framework""; ""3. The Learning Network""; ""4. Discussion""; ""4.1 Sites for health rights""; ""4.2 Gendered approaches""; ""4.3 Spheres of influence""; ""4.4 Adult learning""
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Public health laws.
Public health laws.
World health.
World health.
Public health laws, International.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Public health laws, International.
LAW -- Health.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Freeman, Michael D. A., editor.
Hawkes, Sarah, editor.
Bennett, Belinda, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Law and global health 9780199688999 (OCoLC)859556080
ISBN 9780191003455 (electronic book)
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1306823064 (e-book)
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9780199688999
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