Globalization and Health
Subtitle: Challenges for health law and bioethics (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 11, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781402041952
Subjects: Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Science/Mathematics; Ethics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Medical Law & Legislation; Bioethics; Health law; Human Rights; Law / Medical Law & Legislation; Medical : Ethics; Science : Life Sciences - Biology - General; Economics - General; Congresses; Globalization; Health aspects; Moral and ethical aspects; World health
Description: This timely collection explores ethical and legal dilemmas in healthcare arising from globalization. Conflicts between public interests and individual rights, the challenge of regulating professionals and access to health services, and the effects of a global market all feature prominently in contemporary debates in this area. As a result of globalization, issues in health law and bioethics can no longer be understood solely within political boundaries that define traditional notions of individuals and communities. Rather, solutions for emerging problems require a global conception of rights and obligations, including the re-evaluation of ethical frameworks and legal regimes that currently govern exchanges in healthcare. Leading scholars in bioethics, law, medicine and philosophy from various jurisdictions engage these themes in this volume, and demonstrate the need for transnational solutions in a global age of healthcare.