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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).
Sabine Klotz (Dipl.-Pol.) works in the Kraft Foundation Project »Human Rights and Ethics in the Medicine for Elderlys« (Graduate School) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Heiner Bielefeldt holds the chair for human rights and human right politics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and participated in the working group on »future values«. From 2010 to 2016 he was a Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Martina Schmidhuber (Dr. phil. fac. theol.) is a research fellow at the Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Andreas Frewer(Prof. Dr. med., M.A.) is professor for medical ethics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and European master in bioethics.
Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
Healthcare in the Spectrum of Human Rights. An Introduction 9
The Human Right to Health 23
The Minimum Core Approach to the Right to Health 55
Conceptualising Minimum Core Obligations under the Right to Health. How Should We Define and Implement the ›Morality of the Depths‹? 95
The Right to Health and the Global Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases 123
The Human Right to Health and Primary Health Care (PHC) Policies 145
Using EquiFrame and EquIPP to Support and Evaluate the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals 169
Conscientious Objection in the Medical Sector 201
The Implications of the Right to Health for Border Management 227
Prevention of Torture and Cruel or Inhuman and Degrading Treatment in Healthcare 263
The Right to Health and the Post-2015 Health and Sustainable Development Goal Agenda 293
Mapping Constitutional Commitments on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights 321
Emergency Treatment after Potential HIV-Exposure 347
The Case Law on the Right to Health as an Example and as a Problem 365
Human Rights in Practice 395
Therapists as Advocates 403
Authors 421