Healthcare as a human rights issue : normative profile conflicts and implementation 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 Nürnberg).