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Chapter 9 - Responsibility for Global Health

from Section 2 - Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

Solomon Benatar
Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town
Gillian Brock
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
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Summary

Global health is becoming a fashionable term among scholars, human rights activists, state officials, leaders of international and transnational organizations, and others. Until recently, health as a matter of collective concern largely implied national health. When the health problems of people in other countries became a public issue, it was usually within the confines of the notion of disaster relief, short-term responses to acute health crises caused by natural disasters or wars. Global health is a relatively new category of moral concern, empirical investigation, and institutional action.

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Global Health
Ethical Challenges
, pp. 136 - 145
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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