Globalization and Health

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: BENNETT, BELINDA (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), TOMOSSY, GEORGE F. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Σειρά: International Library of Ethics, Law, And the New Medicine, 27
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Medicine.; Medical ethics.; Medical laws and legislation.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Medical Law.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Biomedicine general.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

This timely collection explores ethical and legal dilemmas in healthcare arising from globalization. Conflicts between public interests and individual rights, the challenge of regulating professionals and access to health services, and the effects of a global market all feature prominently in contem...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• PUBLIC HEALTH: DEVELOPING GLOBAL CONCERNS
• Travel in a small world
• Globalization and health
• Globalization and clinical trials
• Ethics, disease and obligation
• THE GLOBAL BIO-ECONOMY: CONSENSUS AND INNOVATION
• Regulating the bio-economy
• The global context for risk governance
• Global intellectual property protection of “innovative” pharmaceuticals
• Directing consumption
• Globalization and biotechnology policy
• GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH CARE
• The rights of donor-conceived children to know the identity of their donor
• Globalization and English medical law
• Health practitioner regulation.