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-Nurnberg).

About the Author
Sabine Klotz (Dipl.-Pol.) works in the Kraft Foundation Project "Human Rights and Ethics in the Medicine for Elderlys" (Graduate School) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg. Heiner Bielefeldt holds the chair for human rights and human right politics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and participated in the working group on "future values". From 2010 to 2016 he was a Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Martina Schmidhuber (Dr. phil. fac. theol.) is a research fellow at the Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Andreas Frewer(Prof. Dr. med., M.A.) is professor for medical ethics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg and European master in bioethics.

Reviews
Besprochen in: https://www.infodienst.bzga.de, 12 (2017)



Book Information
ISBN 9783837640540
Author Andreas Frewer
Format Paperback
Page Count 426
Imprint Transcript Verlag
Publisher Transcript Verlag
Weight(grams) 666g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm * 15mm