Solomon R Benatar
Biographic Data
| ID | 712974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Solomon R Benatar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Solomon R |
| FAMILY NAME | Benatar |
| SIGNATURE | BENATAR S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8870-2602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Disconnections between medical education and medical practice
Medical practice has changed profoundly over the past 60 years. Many changes have also been made in medical education, often with a view to countering adverse aspects of highly specialised, commercialised and bureaucratised modern medical practice. Regardless of the state of the world today and of the variety of changes that may occur in the years ahead, excellence in the application of bedside skills and technological advances, accompanied by ex…
Reflections on the political economy of planetary health
This article seeks to contribute to debates on the political economy of global health by offering a ‘planetary’ perspective. We initially sketch contestations concerning improvements, inequalities and inequities in the state of global health in order to move towards a more integrated conception of significant social forces driving transformations in health, society and ecology. We then explore key agencies (e.g. large energy and pharmaceutical co…
Understanding the relationship between ethics, neoliberalism and power as a step towards improving the health of people and our planet
This article seeks to evaluate the ethical underpinnings of neoliberalism and its associated power relations, and to illustrate the influence of such relationships on the health of people and the planet in the so-called era of the Anthropocene. We seek to reveal the current ethical standing of neoliberalism, and to identify other ethical positions and power relations that could be more conducive to promoting peaceful progress in an era during whi…
A Divided World in Entropy
Why equity in health and in access to health care are elusive
Health and access to health care vary strikingly across the globe, and debates about this have been pervasive and controversial. Some comparative data in Canada and South Africa illustrate the complexity of achieving greater equity anywhere, even in a wealthy country like Canada. Potential bi-directional lessons relevant both to local and global public health are identified. Both countries should consider the implications of lost opportunity cost…
Freedom of Speech, Academic Freedom, and Challenges to Universities in South Africa
Health in Low-Income Countries
Health and Health Care in South Africa — 20 Years after Mandela
Twenty years after the fall of apartheid, social and economic disparities persist in South Africa and have a profound effect on the health of the population. HIV infection and tuberculosis remain major health problems, and there are not enough health care workers.
Research Ethics Capacity Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
The last fifteen years have witnessed a significant increase in investment in research ethics capacity development throughout the world. We examine nine research ethics training programs that are focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and supported by the US National Institutes of Health. We collected data from grants awards' documents and annual reports supplemented by questionnaires completed by the training program directors. Together, these programs p…
The Quest for Justice in Global Health
A number of high‐profile ethical dilemmas are embedded in the emerging topic of global health. The three books under review here provide various lenses through which to view them. In Ethics in Global Health: Research, Policy, and Practice, Ruth Macklin offers finely honed contemporary arguments and applies them to the future. Global Justice and Bioethics, a collection of essays edited by Joseph Millum and Ezekiel Emanuel, focuses on theories of j…
Improving resource allocation decisions for health and HIV programmes in South Africa
The escalating expenditure on patients with HIV/AIDS within an inadequately funded public health system is tending towards crowding out care for patients with non-HIV illnesses. Priority-setting decisions are thus required and should increasingly be based on an explicit, transparent and accountable process to facilitate sustainability. South Africa's public health system is eroding, even though the government has received extensive donor financin…
Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership
This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is situated historically within the classics of modern political theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global capitalism today. Contributors reflect on the multiple political,…
The Atlas of Human Rights
The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism
A critical public-health ethics analysis of Canada's international response to HIV
As interconnections between health, ideology and politics become increasingly acknowledged, gaps in the literature also become visible in terms of analytic frameworks to engage these issues and empirical studies to understand the complexities. 'Critical public-health ethics' provides such an analytic lens. This article presents the results of a critical public-health ethics analysis of the government of Canada's international response to HIV. Thi…
Global Health and the Global Economic Crisis
Although the resources and knowledge for achieving improved global health exist, a new, critical paradigm on health as an aspect of human development, human security, and human rights is needed. Such a shift is required to sufficiently modify and credibly reduce the present dominance of perverse market forces on global health. New scientific discoveries can make wide-ranging contributions to improved health; however, improved global health depend…
Values in global health governance
In the 60 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was promulgated, the promise of achieving respect for the human rights, health and well being of all is becoming an ever more distant prospect. We have not even remotely met the challenge of improving health for a large proportion of the world's population, and the prospects for improving global health seem to be receding in the current deteriorating economic and political climate. A…
Making progress in global health
This article takes the state of health in the world today as the starting point for a backward look at the trajectory that has led to our current position and speculation about prospects for improved global health in the future. Our model of social development and its dominant value system, which has promoted scientific progress but has also brought about great social, economic and health instability, is interrogated. This leads to questions such…
Epilogue
Dual Loyalty of Physicians in the Military and in Civilian Life
The concept of the dual loyalty physicians may have to both a patient and a third party is important in elucidating the obligations of physicians. The extent to which loyalty may be deflected from a patient to a third party (e.g., an insurance company or a prison commander) is greatly underestimated and has not attracted significant scholarly analysis. We examined dual loyalty in civilian and military contexts and used the principles of public he…
Canadian Pharmaceuticals
Rationally Defensible Standards for Research in Developing Countries
D ebates on ethical requirements for conducting international collaborative medical research in developing countries have achieved considerable prominence in recent years. The stark implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, major escalation of clinical research in developing countries, and the imbalance of only 10% of world medical research expenditure on diseases causing 90% of the global burden of disease have rekindled concern about relationships…
Global health ethics
Despite spectacular twentieth century scientific and technological progress, the world is more inequitable than it was fifty years ago. This is evident both in terms of access to health care for individuals, and in relation to the health of whole populations. Disparities in wealth and health within and between nations are widening inexorably and the rapidly expanding global economy has failed to reduce poverty among those with little if any acces…
Human rights in the biotechnology era 1
BACKGOUND: The concept of Human Rights has become the modern civilising standard to which all should aspire and indeed attain. DISCUSSION: In an era characterised by widening disparities in health and human rights across the world and spectacular advances in biotechnology it is necessary to reflect on the extent to which human rights considerations are selectively applied for the benefit of the most privileged people. Attention is drawn particula…
Response to Doctors Pang and Ashcroft
Reflections and recommendations on research ethics in developing countries
Global health ethics
Despite spectacular twentieth century scientific and technological progress, the world is more inequitable than it was fifty years ago. This is evident both in terms of access to health care for individuals, and in relation to the health of whole populations. Disparities in wealth and health within and between nations are widening inexorably and the rapidly expanding global economy has failed to reduce poverty among those with little if any acces…
Reflections on the political economy of planetary health
This article seeks to contribute to debates on the political economy of global health by offering a ‘planetary’ perspective. We initially sketch contestations concerning improvements, inequalities and inequities in the state of global health in order to move towards a more integrated conception of significant social forces driving transformations in health, society and ecology. We then explore key agencies (e.g. large energy and pharmaceutical co…
South Africa's Transition in a Globalizing World
South Africa's peaceful transition is evolving during a period in which spectacular twentieth-century achievements have greatly improved life for one-fifth of the world's population. These are being gradually eclipsed, however, by the impact of social and economic forces that relegate four-fifths of the world's population to increasingly insecure, miserable and impoverished lives. South Africa's negotiated revolution, which has allowed it to move…
Global Health and the Global Economic Crisis
Although the resources and knowledge for achieving improved global health exist, a new, critical paradigm on health as an aspect of human development, human security, and human rights is needed. Such a shift is required to sufficiently modify and credibly reduce the present dominance of perverse market forces on global health. New scientific discoveries can make wide-ranging contributions to improved health; however, improved global health depend…
Understanding the relationship between ethics, neoliberalism and power as a step towards improving the health of people and our planet
This article seeks to evaluate the ethical underpinnings of neoliberalism and its associated power relations, and to illustrate the influence of such relationships on the health of people and the planet in the so-called era of the Anthropocene. We seek to reveal the current ethical standing of neoliberalism, and to identify other ethical positions and power relations that could be more conducive to promoting peaceful progress in an era during whi…
Making progress in global health
This article takes the state of health in the world today as the starting point for a backward look at the trajectory that has led to our current position and speculation about prospects for improved global health in the future. Our model of social development and its dominant value system, which has promoted scientific progress but has also brought about great social, economic and health instability, is interrogated. This leads to questions such…
Dual Loyalty of Physicians in the Military and in Civilian Life
The concept of the dual loyalty physicians may have to both a patient and a third party is important in elucidating the obligations of physicians. The extent to which loyalty may be deflected from a patient to a third party (e.g., an insurance company or a prison commander) is greatly underestimated and has not attracted significant scholarly analysis. We examined dual loyalty in civilian and military contexts and used the principles of public he…
A Divided World in Entropy
Freedom of Speech, Academic Freedom, and Challenges to Universities in South Africa
Ethics, Medicine, and Health in South Africa
Health care issues such as the availability of medical services,\naccess to health care according to ability to pay, geography, and racial\ndiscrimination, segregation of public hospitals, allocation of resources and\nfacilities, occupational health care, and the physician patient relationship\nare discussed within the context of the political, economic, and psychosocial\nforces of South Africa. (KIE abstract)
The legacy of apartheid in health and health care
This contribution analyses and systematiscs apartheid as a phenomenon and as a problem in South African health and health care. It is assumed that apartheid is one of the most decisive forces moulding the South African health care system as well as the health of the people, resulting in grave race-related disparities, inequalities, fragmentation and discrimination on the one hand, and divergent, race-related health outcomes in the health indices …
Medical ethics in times of war and insurrection
Health Care Services in a New South Africa
In meeting the challenges of fashioning a new health care system,\nSouth Africa stands poised to contribute to a better future for its own\ncitizens and the subcontinent
Towards social justice in a new South Africa
South Africa's peaceful political transition from apartheid to democracy will have to be followed by a profound social transformation process if inequities are to be reduced and sustainable progress achieved. A brief review of the local and global contexts of the political transition exposes the minimal conditions required for enlightened social progress in South Africa and beyond
War, or peace and development
A shift in mind‐set is required to appreciate the extent of change demanded at a global level to begin to reverse ideological and exploitative processes that by continuing to polarize the world into a small and shrinking rich core and a large and growing poor periphery threaten the lives of all in an interdependent world. Proposals for reversing such adverse processes include (i) acquiring a deeper understanding of the ‘Third World’ or ‘periphery…
The Coming Catastrophe in International Health
INTRODUCTIONDuring the 20th century, developments in science and technology and their application in medical practice have transformed the nature of health care and improved the lives of many people. In the 21st century, advances in genetics have the potential to transform medical practices even further through a revolution in applied genomics and molecular medicine. Some examples of what could be achieved include the ability to determine genetic…
South Africa's Transition in a Globalizing World
South Africa's peaceful transition is evolving during a period in which spectacular twentieth-century achievements have greatly improved life for one-fifth of the world's population. These are being gradually eclipsed, however, by the impact of social and economic forces that relegate four-fifths of the world's population to increasingly insecure, miserable and impoverished lives. South Africa's negotiated revolution, which has allowed it to move…
Human rights in the biotechnology era 1
BACKGOUND: The concept of Human Rights has become the modern civilising standard to which all should aspire and indeed attain. DISCUSSION: In an era characterised by widening disparities in health and human rights across the world and spectacular advances in biotechnology it is necessary to reflect on the extent to which human rights considerations are selectively applied for the benefit of the most privileged people. Attention is drawn particula…
Response to Doctors Pang and Ashcroft
Reflections and recommendations on research ethics in developing countries
Global health ethics
Despite spectacular twentieth century scientific and technological progress, the world is more inequitable than it was fifty years ago. This is evident both in terms of access to health care for individuals, and in relation to the health of whole populations. Disparities in wealth and health within and between nations are widening inexorably and the rapidly expanding global economy has failed to reduce poverty among those with little if any acces…
Canadian Pharmaceuticals
Rationally Defensible Standards for Research in Developing Countries
D ebates on ethical requirements for conducting international collaborative medical research in developing countries have achieved considerable prominence in recent years. The stark implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, major escalation of clinical research in developing countries, and the imbalance of only 10% of world medical research expenditure on diseases causing 90% of the global burden of disease have rekindled concern about relationships…
Epilogue
Dual Loyalty of Physicians in the Military and in Civilian Life
The concept of the dual loyalty physicians may have to both a patient and a third party is important in elucidating the obligations of physicians. The extent to which loyalty may be deflected from a patient to a third party (e.g., an insurance company or a prison commander) is greatly underestimated and has not attracted significant scholarly analysis. We examined dual loyalty in civilian and military contexts and used the principles of public he…
Making progress in global health
This article takes the state of health in the world today as the starting point for a backward look at the trajectory that has led to our current position and speculation about prospects for improved global health in the future. Our model of social development and its dominant value system, which has promoted scientific progress but has also brought about great social, economic and health instability, is interrogated. This leads to questions such…
Values in global health governance
In the 60 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was promulgated, the promise of achieving respect for the human rights, health and well being of all is becoming an ever more distant prospect. We have not even remotely met the challenge of improving health for a large proportion of the world's population, and the prospects for improving global health seem to be receding in the current deteriorating economic and political climate. A…
Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership
This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is situated historically within the classics of modern political theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global capitalism today. Contributors reflect on the multiple political,…
The Atlas of Human Rights
The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism
A critical public-health ethics analysis of Canada's international response to HIV
As interconnections between health, ideology and politics become increasingly acknowledged, gaps in the literature also become visible in terms of analytic frameworks to engage these issues and empirical studies to understand the complexities. 'Critical public-health ethics' provides such an analytic lens. This article presents the results of a critical public-health ethics analysis of the government of Canada's international response to HIV. Thi…
Global Health and the Global Economic Crisis
Although the resources and knowledge for achieving improved global health exist, a new, critical paradigm on health as an aspect of human development, human security, and human rights is needed. Such a shift is required to sufficiently modify and credibly reduce the present dominance of perverse market forces on global health. New scientific discoveries can make wide-ranging contributions to improved health; however, improved global health depend…
The Quest for Justice in Global Health
A number of high‐profile ethical dilemmas are embedded in the emerging topic of global health. The three books under review here provide various lenses through which to view them. In Ethics in Global Health: Research, Policy, and Practice, Ruth Macklin offers finely honed contemporary arguments and applies them to the future. Global Justice and Bioethics, a collection of essays edited by Joseph Millum and Ezekiel Emanuel, focuses on theories of j…
Improving resource allocation decisions for health and HIV programmes in South Africa
The escalating expenditure on patients with HIV/AIDS within an inadequately funded public health system is tending towards crowding out care for patients with non-HIV illnesses. Priority-setting decisions are thus required and should increasingly be based on an explicit, transparent and accountable process to facilitate sustainability. South Africa's public health system is eroding, even though the government has received extensive donor financin…
Political science (30 works) · Law (22 works) · Medicine (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Economics (20 works) · Economic growth (16 works) · Health care (15 works) · Health and Conflict Studies (11 works) · Global health (10 works) · Environmental ethics (8 works)