Routledge Handbook of Global Health Rights

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective. It will be an invaluable resource for students, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of health law and policy, and international human rights law.

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.

Part A Chapter 1: An introduction to health rights as they apply in a global landscape Chapter 2: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Part I: Articles 1, 2 3, 5 and 6 Chapter 3: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Part II: Articles 7, 12, 16, 18, 19 and 25 Chapter 4: A global right to health amid global health emergencies Chapter 5: Global Health Rights in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights:On the Doctrine of the Minimum Core Obligations and a Co-Responsibility to Care Part B Beginning of life and children Chapter 6: Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Uganda: Law and Practice Chapter 7: Abortion and conscience: a crossroads for Northern Ireland Chapter 8: The standard of care and implications for paediatric decision-making: the Swedish viewpoint Middle of Life Chapter 9: The right to health in Hong King: incorporation, implementation and balancing Chapter 10: 'Dignity' in the adjudication of health rights in India Chapter 11: Universal health coverage and the right to health in Nigeria Chapter 12: Realising the right to health in Kenya: connecting health governance outcomes to patient safety perspectives Chapter 13: Developing an intrinsic patient safety culture in health systems: the NHS experience Chapter 14: Clinical Negligence Litigation Procedure, Policy and Practice in England: the product of a legal cycle rather than an application of a right to health? Chapter 15: Patient Safety and Human Rights Chapter 16: Fundamental rights to health care and charging overseas visitors for NHS treatment: Diversity across the the United Kingdom's devolved jurisdictions Chapter 17: Public reporting, transparency and patient autonomy in the province of Quebec End-of-life Chapter 18: Human tissue, human rights and humanity Chapter 19: Autonomy and the right to (end one's?) life: a German perspective Chapter 20: End of Life Issues in Australia and New Zealand Chapter 21: Comparative perspectives on medical aid in dying: the United States and Canada Part C Chapter 22: A right to health: a right granted, agreed, but limited or denied?