Research handbook on global health law / edited by Gian Luca Burci and Brigit Toebes.

"The effect of Globalization on health has attracted the attention of scholars and policy makers across multiple disciplines. A key concern is the regulation of international health protection, and in particular the use of international health instruments and the complex interaction between int...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Elgaronline)
Other Authors: Burci, Gian Luca (Editor), Toebes, Brigit C. A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2018.
Series:Research handbooks on globalisation and the law.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Framing global health law
  • Global health law : defining the field / Brigit Toebes
  • Global health law and governance : concepts, tools, actors and power / Suerie Moon
  • Part 2: International law and health
  • Still getting to know you : global health law and the right to health / John Tobin
  • Hardwired human rights : a health and human rights perspective on global health law / Thérèse Murphy
  • Health and international trade law / Benn McGrady
  • Health and intellectual property rights / Frederick M. Abbott
  • Health and international investment law / Chiara Giorgetti
  • Health and international environmental law / Makane Moïse Mbengue and Susanna Waltman
  • Health and international humanitarian law / Annyssa Bellal
  • Part 3: International regulation of health challenges
  • Communicable disease control / Stefania Negri
  • The recognition and evolution of the HIV and human rights interface : 1981-2017 / Daniel Tarantola and Sofia Gruskin
  • The global tobacco epidemic and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control : the contributions of the WHO's first convention to global health law and governance / Suzanne Zhou and Jonathan Liberman
  • Global health law and non-communicable diseases prevention : maximizing opportunities by understanding constraints / Amandine Garde
  • Global health law and obesity : towards a complementary approach of public health and human rights law / Katharina Ó Cathaoir, Mette Hartlev and Céline Brassart Olsen
  • International harmonization of pharmaceutical standards : trade, ethics and power / Xavier Seuba
  • Part 4: Conclusion
  • Global health law : present and future / Gian Luca Burci.