PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Nicole Hassoun is Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University and Visiting Scholar at Cornell University. She co-directs the Institute for Justice and Well-Being and is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Bioethics and Health Law. She is the author of Globalization and Global Justice (Cambridge University Press 2012), and has published widely in journals including American Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Development Economics, PLoS One, The European Journal of Philosophy, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
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 * 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 *
