Justice, Solidarity, and Global Health

Articulating a call for justice in the context of global health, this fascinating book responds to the uncertainties, inequalities, and conflicts highlighted through the COVID-19 pandemic by arguing that everyone, no matter where they live, is entitled to at least a basic level of healthcare. Moreover, this entitlement generates a range of duties that all persons have obligations to fulfil. Grounded in Henry Shue's "basic rights" framework, this book explores what we must do individually and collectively to meet the needs of, and fulfil our responsibilities to, other people. Examining the individual, public, and global health consequences of excluding certain people through a rigid enforcement of narrowly defined group boundaries, it illustrates the uneven global distribution of the vital health goods while highlighting the close epidemiological and economic relationships that exist between even distant persons. This book thus offers both an ethical and deeply practical response to the complex challenges of our increasingly globalised world. Erudite and important, this is a book that will interest students and scholars across disciplines, from Public Health to Philosophy to Bioethics to International Relations.

Peter West-Oram is Associate Professor in Bioethics at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, UK.

1. Introduction 2. Justifying Duties to Care for the Health of Other People 3. Ideal Cosmopolitan Solidarity and the Relationality of Health 4. The Duty to Avoid Depriving: Essential Medicines, the TRIPS Regime, and Pandemic Disease 5. The Duty to Protect from Deprivation: Caring about Non-Deliberate Harms during a Pandemic 6. The Duty to Aid the Deprived: Priority Setting in Response to Deprivation 7. Exclusionary Solidarity and Global Health 8. Conclusion