Healthcare as a Human Rights Issue

This book deals with various facets of the human right to health: its normative profile as a universal right, current political and legal conflicts and contextualized implementation in different healthcare systems. The authors come from different countries and disciplines - law, political science, ethics, medicine etc. - and bring together a broad variety of academic and practical perspectives. The volume contains selected contributions of the international conference "The Right to Health - an Empty Promise?" held in September 2015 in Berlin and organized by the Emerging Field Initiative Project "Human Rights in Healthcare" (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Sabine Klotz is researcher at the chair in Human Rights and Human Rights Politics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Heiner Bielefeldt holds the chair in Human Rights and Human Rights Politics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2010 to 2016, he was UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief of the UN Human Rights Council. Martina Schmidhuber is a research fellow at the Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Andreas Frewer is professor of medical ethics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and European master in bioethics. He is managing director of the Clinical Ethics Committee and various (inter-)national research projects.