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Bioethics & Human Rights: Access to Health-Related Goods
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 39, Number 5, September-October 2009
- pp. 27-38
- 10.1353/hcr.0.0185
- Article
- Additional Information
There are many good reasons for a merger between bioethics and human rights. First, though, significant philosophical groundwork must be done to clarify what a human right to health would be and—if we accept that it exists—exactly how it might influence the practical decisions we face about who gets what in very different contexts.