Forthcoming!

Health and Human Rights in Europe

March 2012 | ISBN 978-94-000-0151-0 | xiii + 315 pp. | 69 euro | 133 US dollar | 66 GB pound | paperback

Brigit Toebes, Mette Hartlev, Aart Hendriks and Janne Rothmar Herrmann (eds.)

The area of ‘health and human rights’ is a new and emerging field under international and European human rights law and health law. Taking a ‘health and human rights approach’ means using international, European and national human rights law in relation to a wide range of health issues, including access to healthcare, health data protection, the quality of pharmaceutical drugs, as well as medical-ethical issues such as abortion and euthanasia. Human rights law can play an important role in promoting and protecting health, both nationally and internationally. It gives an international legal and moral dimension to existing health-related approaches, and as such it can enrich other health-related disciplines, including medical law, health law, bio-law, bio-ethics, public health and social medicine. There is, however, still very little understanding of the various and multiple legal interfaces between ‘health’ and ‘human rights’, and of the implications of this approach for legal research and practice. To fill this gap, this volume seeks to draw the legal contents and implications of this new area of the law. Its focus is on Europe, as the European context raises specific questions, not only from a legal and a political perspective, but also in terms of health issues and health outcomes. The book first discusses how the European institutions (the Council of Europe and the European Union) deal with health and human rights. Subsequently it describes the meaning of the most important human rights involved in this area, and it addresses a variety of themes and approaches that engage with health and human rights links, including patient rights, reproductive health, and issues surrounding death and dying. Lastly, it discusses the position of a number of vulnerable groups, in particular disabled persons, the elderly, and children.

Health and Human Rights in Europe

Contents Introduction - Brigit Toebes Part I. Health and human rights: the European institutions Chapter 1. The Council of Europe - Aart Hendriks Chapter 2. The European Union - Janne Rothmar Herrmann and Brigit Toebes Part II. Health and Human Rights: an exploration of the field Chapter 3. The right to health, and the other health-related rights - Brigit Toebes Chapter 4. Patient rights - Mette Hartlev Chapter 5. Reproductive health - Janne Rothmar Herrmann Chapter 6. End-of-life decisions in medicine in a human rights perspective - Jozef Dorscheidt Part III. Vulnerable groups, health inequalities, and the social determinants of health Chapter 7. Health inequalities and the social determinants of health - Brigit Toebes and Karien Stronks Chapter 8. Children’s right to health from a public health perspective - Henriette Sinding Aasen Chapter 9. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of Health Care - Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir Chapter 10. The elderly, health and human rights - Henriette Sinding Aasen Part IV. Conclusions, challenges and recommendations - Brigit Toebes Visit our website www.intersentia.com for the complete table of contents.

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