Global Health Impact

""This important interdisciplinary book will be well received by its target audience of scholars with at least working knowledge of rights-based ethics and health policy."" -- R. F. White, CHOICE ""Global Health Impact is an excellent exploration of core issues in global health ethics and proof of concept for the scientifically rigorous, policy-oriented philosophy and philosophically-informed policy Nicole Hassoun champions therein. The book builds on more than a decade of Hassoun's important philosophical and empirical work on health/healthcare ethics and politics and contributes to multiple fields, including ethics, political philosophy, law, and public policy. Hassoun's arguments deserve close attention."" -- Michael Da Silva, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice ""In this highly impressive work Nicole Hassoun makes a compelling case for the human rights to health and to access essential medicines, arguing that consumers have responsibilities to purchase in ways that support such rights. She develops a sophisticated proposal through her Global Health Impact initiatives, which are strongly grounded in both theory and practice. A masterful blend of philosophical and empirical work, Global Health Impact shows how engaged philosophy can inform progressive policy in our contemporary world."" -- Gillian Brock, University of Auckland ""Global Health Impact reveals in gripping detail the human cost of inaccessible, unaffordable essential medicines. Everyone has an equal right to survive and to thrive, but our world isn't designed that way. Hassounâs ideas are transformative. She tugs at our social conscience. She provides a powerful tool for social action. Want to understand why the worldâs poor canât access essential medicines? Want a plan to secure health justice? Read Hassounâs powerful book."" -- Lawrence Gostin, Georgetown University ""Nicole Hassoun addresses issues related to global justice, the right to health in general, and the right to essential medicine. She relates philosophical debates to policy, and makes policy debates theoretically coherent. She should be commended for a creative initiative and a willingness to come up with an interesting idea for how to improve access to essential drugs for the global poor. Her approach is interdisciplinary and engages well with people's growing interest in what individuals can do in response to global injustice."" --Ole Frithjof Norheim, University of Bergen and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ""This is a timely book on an important topic. It makes a significant contribution to the debate on ethics in global health by focusing on measuring the global health impact of different drugs, and the companies that produce them. Her claims are bold and well-argued."" --Jonathan Wolff, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford