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Health care and human rights: against the split duty gambit.

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Sreenivasan, G
Published in: Theoretical medicine and bioethics
August 2016

There are various grounds on which one may wish to distinguish a right to health care from a right to health. In this article, I review some old grounds before introducing some new grounds. But my central task is to argue that separating a right to health care from a right to health has objectionable consequences. I offer two main objections. The domestic objection is that separating the two rights prevents the state from fulfilling its duty to maximise the health it provides each citizen from its fixed health budget. The international objection is that separating a human right to health care fails the moral requirement that, for any given moral human right, the substance to which any two right-holders are entitled be of an equal standard.

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Theoretical medicine and bioethics

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EISSN

1573-0980

ISSN

1386-7415

Publication Date

August 2016

Volume

37

Issue

4

Start / End Page

343 / 364

Related Subject Headings

  • Morals
  • Humans
  • Human Rights
  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Health Care Costs
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Applied Ethics
  • 5003 Philosophy
  • 5002 History and philosophy of specific fields
 

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Sreenivasan, G. (2016). Health care and human rights: against the split duty gambit. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 37(4), 343–364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-016-9375-7
Sreenivasan, Gopal. “Health care and human rights: against the split duty gambit.Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 37, no. 4 (August 2016): 343–64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-016-9375-7.
Sreenivasan G. Health care and human rights: against the split duty gambit. Theoretical medicine and bioethics. 2016 Aug;37(4):343–64.
Sreenivasan, Gopal. “Health care and human rights: against the split duty gambit.Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, vol. 37, no. 4, Aug. 2016, pp. 343–64. Epmc, doi:10.1007/s11017-016-9375-7.
Sreenivasan G. Health care and human rights: against the split duty gambit. Theoretical medicine and bioethics. 2016 Aug;37(4):343–364.

Published In

Theoretical medicine and bioethics

DOI

EISSN

1573-0980

ISSN

1386-7415

Publication Date

August 2016

Volume

37

Issue

4

Start / End Page

343 / 364

Related Subject Headings

  • Morals
  • Humans
  • Human Rights
  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Health Care Costs
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Applied Ethics
  • 5003 Philosophy
  • 5002 History and philosophy of specific fields