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-Nürnberg).
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Andreas Frewer (Prof. Dr. med., M.A.) ist Professor für Ethik in der Medizin an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg und European Master in Bioethics. Er leitet die Geschäftsstelle des Klinischen Ethikkomitees in Erlangen (UKER) und ist u.a. Senior Advisory Consultant der World Health Organization (WHO).