Abstract:
A moral right to health or, more narrowly, health care, within a society (governed by a state) is a special case of a right to fair equality of opportunity. To claim such a moral right globally (across national borders) requires improvements of global governance adequate to carry out the function of a fair process in specifying the entitlements of such a right and the function of raising the resources necessary to meet those entitlements. Our speaker will explore whether such capabilities of global governance are feasible. His main argument is that it is improbable that we can solve the coordination problem involved if we assume a world of nation-states, such as we have now.
About the lecturer:
Norman Daniels is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor and Professor of Ethics and Population Health at Harvard School of Public Health. He is one of the leading experts world-wide in the field of the philosophy of science, ethics, political and social philosophy and medical ethics and has published over 150 articles in anthologies and numerous internationally high-ranking journals.
His books include Just Health Care (Cambridge, 1985); From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice (Cambridge, 2000; with Bruce Kennedy and Ichiro Kawachi); Is Inequality Bad for Health? (Beacon Press, 2000); and Setting Limits Fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources? (Oxford, 2002; 2nd edition 2008; with James Sabin).
ceres Lecture: Prof. Norman Daniels, PhD (Harvard School of Public Health): A Global Right to Health Care?
Date: October 19, 2015, 6 p.m.
Time: 6-7.30 pm
Location: University of Cologne, Main Auditorium Hall (Aula 2), Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50937 Cologne
Further Information: www.ceres.uni-koeln.de/ceres-lecture.html
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