Routledge Handbook of Global Health Rights

Clayton Ó Néill, Charles Foster, Jonathan Herring (University of Oxford, UK) , John Tingle

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Routledge
31 May 2021

Society & culture: general; Anthropology; Social work; Politics & government; Health & Self-Help

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.

The volume is based on a particular conceptual reasoning that balances critical thinking and pragmatism in the context of a universal right to health. Thus, the primary focus of the book is the relationship or contrast between rights-based discourse/jurisprudential arguments and real-life healthcare contexts. The work sets out the constraints that are imposed on a universal right to health by practical realities such as economic hardship in countries, lack of appropriate governance, and lack of support for the implementation of this right through appropriate resource allocation. It queries the degree to which the existence of this legally enshrined right and its application in instruments such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) can be more than an ephemeral aspiration but can, actually, sustain, promote, and instil good practice. It further asks if social reality and the inequalities that present themselves therein impede the implementation of laudable human rights, particularly within marginalised communities and cadres of people. It deliberates on what states and global bodies do, or could do, in practical terms to ensure that such rights are moved beyond the aspirational and become attainable and implementable. Divided into three parts, the first analyses the notion of a universal inalienable right to health(care) from jurisprudential, anthropological, legal, and ethical perspectives. The second part considers the translation of international human rights norms into specific jurisdictional healthcare contexts. With a global perspective it includes countries with very different legal, economic, and social contexts. Finally, the third part summarises the lessons learnt and provides a pathway for future action.

The book will be an invaluable resource for students, academics, and policymakers working in the areas of health law and policy, and international human rights law.

Edited by: Clayton Ó Néill, Charles Foster, Jonathan Herring (University of Oxford, UK), John Tingle
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 900g
ISBN: 9780367276393
ISBN 10: 0367276399
Pages: 430
Publication Date: 31 May 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Clayton Ó Néill, LLB (Ulster), LLM (Dub), BCL (Oxon), PhD (Durham), FHEA, is a Lecturer in Law at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has published a monograph, titled Religion, Medicine and the Law (Routledge 2018). Charles Foster is a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, UK, a fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Senior Research Associate at the Uehiro Institute for Practical Ethics, Oxford, and a Research Associate at the Ethox Centre and the HeLEX Centre at the University of Oxford. Jonathan Herring is the DM Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law at Exeter College, UK, and a Vice Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, UK. John Tingle is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham, UK, and a qualified Barrister. His research interests are in the areas of global and English patient safety, nursing law, and universal health coverage. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at Loyola University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois, USA.