Del 82 i serien International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine

Infectious Diseases in the New Millennium

Legal and Ethical Challenges

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvMark Eccleston-Turner,Iain Brassington

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How can we ensure that pharmaceutical research helps all communities, even those who cannot afford to pay for the products? While broadly covering global health law, the book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach that draws on publicinternational law, philosophy, international relations, human rights law, and healthcare economics.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-05-16
Mått155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt565 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
Antal sidor253
Upplaga20001
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030398187

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Dr. Mark Eccleston-Turner is a Lecturer in Law at Keele University. His research specialism is in the field of international law and infectious diseases. Within this, his research interests lie in the field of pandemic influenza preparedness, access to vaccines, the International Health Regulations, and the law of international organizations in the context of global health. In 2017, he was Visiting Fellow at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, where the majority of this text was written. He is currently an Emerging Leader in Biosecurity Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and a Centre Affiliate at the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University.Dr. Iain Brassington received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Birmingham in 2003; his thesis was an attempt to introduce themes from Heidegger into moral philosophy. Before that, he received an M.Sc. with Distinction in Health Care Ethics from Birmingham (1999), and a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Hull (1998). He taught at the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele from 2003–2006 and at Keele Medical School in 2004–2005; he has also taught in the Medical School at Birmingham in various roles between 1998 and 2003, and at the Philosophy Department at Warwick. Additionally, he had stints as a lorry driver, barman, school teacher, and as a private tutor in philosophy.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement response to Ebola 2014-2016.- Responding to health emergencies: the ethical and legal considerations for militaries.- The World Health Organization and NGOs in the context of public health emergencies: Complementation, juxtaposition or supplantation?.- The Law of Responsibility and the World Health Organization: a Case Study on the West African Ebola Outbreak.- Lessons from the Past: Cholera, Scientific Knowledge, and the Longest-Standing Principle of International Health Law.- Ebola as a threat to international peace and security: the response of the UN Security Council.