Book contents
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Chapter 6 Is There a Need for Global Health Ethics?
- Chapter 7 The Human Right to Health
- Chapter 8 International Human Rights Law and the Social Determinants of Health
- Chapter 9 Responsibility for Global Health
- Chapter 10 Bioethics and Global Child Health
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Chapter 6 - Is There a Need for Global Health Ethics?
For and Against
from Section 2 - Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
Book contents
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Chapter 6 Is There a Need for Global Health Ethics?
- Chapter 7 The Human Right to Health
- Chapter 8 International Human Rights Law and the Social Determinants of Health
- Chapter 9 Responsibility for Global Health
- Chapter 10 Bioethics and Global Child Health
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Summary
To provide an answer to the question of whether we need global health ethics, we set ourselves three goals in this chapter. First, we explore a number of different ways that we might understand the term global health ethics. Second, we consider the arguments that could be used either to support or dismiss what we call substantive accounts of global health ethics. Finally, we make some suggestions in relation to what (if any) global obligations may bind us. Our discussions will use public health as an example throughout to illustrate our points. The reason for this focus is that, in our view, we ought to think of public health as providing systematic structural support for population health, with the key aim of fulfilling the basic requirements to protect health and prevent illness. This is not to suggest that other forms of healthcare are unimportant, just that public health will fulfill a primary role in any attempt to address questions of global justice in relation to existing health inequalities.
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