Health and Human Rights
Volume 17, Issue 1 June 2015
http://www.hhrjournal.org/

Special Section on Bioethics and the Right to Health
in collaboration with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

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Editorial
Bioethics and the Right to Health: Advancing a Complementary Agenda
Jennifer L. Gibson, PhD, Lisa Forman, SJD, Stephanie A. Nixon, PT, PhD
Guest Editors
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This special section in Health and Human Rights Journal explores the relationship between bioethics and the right to health. Although bioethics scholars may argue for a right to health, particularly in the domains of universal health coverage and global health governance, and human rights scholars may advance ethical norms in their work, there has been little scholarly attention to the intersections, synergies, and contrasts between these two areas of study. At first glance, this is surprising given that bioethics and human rights share conceptual and normative terrain in articulating guidance for action on health-related issues and international policy and practice is explicitly interrelating human rights and ethics…

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The Foundations of a Human Right to Health: Human Rights and Bioethics in Dialogue
Audrey Chapman

A Sensitive Period: Bioethics, Human Rights, and Child Development
Avram Denburg

Setting a Minimum Standard of Care in Clinical Trials: Human Rights and Bioethics as Complementary Frameworks
Fatma E. Marouf and Bryn S. Esplin

Commentaries
Limiting Rights and Freedoms in the Context of Ebola and Other Public Health Emergencies: How the Principle of Reciprocity Can Enrich the Application of the Siracusa Principles
Diego S. Silva, Maxwell J. Smith
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