From Conception to Realization: A Human Right to Health
Hastings Center Report, p. 4, May-June 2010
3 Pages Posted: 27 Dec 2011
Date Written: May 1, 2010
Abstract
While we are encouraged by Arras and Fenton’s efforts to consider the philosophical traditions of the right to health and how bioethicists can contribute to the human rights endeavor, we disagree with their vacillating and at times contradictory concerns for the health and human rights enterprise. Where the authors resurrect criticisms of the very existence of a human right to health, these criticisms neglect the ethical development of the right to health, the evolving efforts to define its normative content, and the successful efforts to achieve rights-based accountability.
Keywords: human rights, right to health, rights-based accountability
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