Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

List of Contributors

vii

 

Introduction

1

SECTION 1

GLOBAL HEALTH, DEFINITIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS

11

1

What is Global Health?   Solomon Benatar and Ross Upshur

13

2

The State of Global Health in a Radically Unequal World: Patterns and Prospects   Ronald Labonte and Ted Schrecker

24

3

Addressing the Societal Determinants of Health: the Key Global Health Ethics Imperative of Our Times   Anne-Emanuelle Birn

37

4

Gender and Global Health: Inequality and Differences   Lesley Doyal and Sarah Payne

53

5

Health Systems and Health   Martin Mckee

63

SECTION 2

GLOBAL HEALTH ETHICS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND JUSTICE: SOME CENTRAL ISSUES

75

6

Is there a Need for Global Health Ethics? For and Against   David Hunter and Angus J. Dawson

77

7

Justice, Infectious Diseases and Globalization   Michael J. Selgelid

89

8

International Health Inequalities and Global Justice: Toward a Middle Ground   Norman Daniels

97

9

The Human Right to Health   Jonathan Wolff

108

10

Responsibility for Global Health   Allen Buchanan and Matthew Decamp

119

11

Global Health Ethics: the Rationale for Mutual Caring   Solomon Benatar, Abdallah S. Daar and Peter A. Singer

129

SECTION 3

ANALYZING SOME REASONS FOR POOR HEALTH

141

12

Trade and Health: the Ethics of Global Rights, Regulation and Redistribution   Meri Koivusalo

143

13

Debt, Structural Adjustment and Health   Jeff Rudin and David Sanders

155

14

The International Arms Trade and Global Health   Salahaddin Mahmudi-Azer

166

15

Allocating Resources in Humanitarian Medicine   Samia A. Hurst, Nathalie Mezger and Alexmauron

173

16

International Aid and Global Health   Anthony B. Zwi

184

17

Climate Change and Health: Risks and Inequities   Sharon Friel, Colin Butler and Anthony Mcmichael

198

18

Animals, the Environment and Global Health   David Benatar

210

19

The Global Crisis and Global Health   Stephen Gill and Isabella Bakker

221

SECTION 4

SHAPING THE FUTURE

239

20

The Health Impact Fund: How to Make New Medicines Accessible to All   Thomas Pogge

241

21

Biotechnology and Global Health   Hassan Masum, Justin Chakma and Abdallah S. Daar

251

22

Food Security and Global Health   Lynn Mclntyre and Krista Rondeau

261

23

International Taxation   Gillian Brock

274

24

Global Health Research: Changing the Agenda   Tikki Pang

285

25

Justice and Research in Developing Countries   Alex John London

293

26

Values in Global Health Governance   Kearsley A. Stewart, Gerald T. Keusch and Arthur Kleinman

304

27

Poverty, Distance and Two Dimensions of Ethics   Jonathan Glover

311

28

Teaching Global Health Ethics   James Dwyer

319

29

Towards a New Common Sense: the Need for New Paradigms of Global Health   Isabella Bakker and Stephen Gill

329

 

Index

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