Responsibilities for the global health crisis

Thesis

This thesis aims to provide a framework for analyzing the moral responsibilities of global agents in what I call the Global Health Crisis (GHC), with special attention devoted to the moral responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies. The main contribution of this thesis is to provide a general account of the moral responsibilities of different global players, mapping the different kinds of duties they have, their content and force, and their relation to the responsibilities of other relevant...

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Authors: de Campos, T

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: Global Justice; Access to Medicine; Rights and Responsibilities; Right to Health; Pharmaceutical Transnational Corporations
• Subjects: Global economic governance; Public Health; Health and health policy; Poverty; Human rights; Intellectual property; Philosophy of law; Civic & landscape art; Legal philosophy