The Foundations of a Human Right to Health

Human Rights and Bioethics in Dialogue

Bibliographic Data

ID12440225
AuthorsAudrey R Chapman (0000-0001-9269-3147, UConn Health, corresponding author), Audrey Chapman
Year2015
Volume17
Issue1
Pages6-6
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth and Human Rights (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1079-0969 • E-ISSN: 2150-4113
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/healhumarigh.17.1.6
PMID26204585
OpenAlexW952093635
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited1

Human rights, including the right to health, are grounded in protecting and promoting human dignity. Although commitment to human dignity is a widely shared value, the precise meaning and requirements behind the term are elusive. It is also unclear as to how a commitment to human dignity translates into specific human rights, such as the right to the highest attainable standard of health, and delineates their scope and obligations. The resulting lack of clarity about the foundations of and justification for the right to health has been problematic in a number of ways. This article identifies the strengths of and some of the issues with the grounding of the right to health in human dignity. It then examines ethical and philosophical expositions of human dignity and several alternative foundations proposed for the right to health, including capability theory and the work of Norman Daniels, to assess whether any offer a richer and more adequate conceptual grounding for the right to health

Bioethics · Biology · CLARITY · Dignity · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human rights · Law and economics · Meaning (existential · Political science · Right to health · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Computer Science · Ethics in medical practice · Human Rights and Development · Law · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Philosophy

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