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Global Health Law and Policy presents the global governance necessary to respond to the health threats of the twenty-first century, laying an academic foundation to address the legal challenges in global health.

In an age of pandemics, no country can achieve public health on its own. Health security expert Lawrence O. Gostin examines the key cross-border threats to our well-being, from infectious diseases to bioterrorism, and proposes pragmatic solutions: targeted research, robust international institutions, and tools for effective global action.

This is a practical rather than theoretical book about the relationship between public health and human rights in HIV/AIDS. Using a human rights impact assessment method, the authors provide a critical evaluation of public health policies on many troublesome issues like testing, partner notification, isolation, and criminalization.

This book provides a detailed understanding of the evolving relationship between global health and human rights, by bringing together leading academics in the field to explain the norms and principles that define it, examine the methods and tools for implementing human rights to promote health, apply essential human rights to leading public health threats, and analyze rising human rights challenges in a rapidly globalizing world.

This book provides a detailed understanding of the evolving relationship between global health and human rights, by bringing together leading academics in the field to explain the norms and principles that define it, examine the methods and tools for implementing human rights to promote health, apply essential human rights to leading public health threats, and analyze rising human rights challenges in a rapidly globalizing world.

This book uncovers the ways in which human rights influence global efforts to promote the health of the most vulnerable in a globalizing world. It examines the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, studying an expansive set of health challenges through a multi-sectoral array of global organizations.

Eplores and integrates the legal and policy aspects of health care financing/delivery, and of public health. The casebook provides comprehensive coverage of the organisation, financing, and delivery of the individual health care and population/public health systems. It also explores the interconnections between these two systems and the role of the Affordable Care Act in shaping future legal oversight.

Despite global progress, staggering health inequalities between rich and poor raise basic questions of social justice. Defining the field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective governance and offers a blueprint for reform, based on the principle that the opportunity to live a healthy life is a basic human right.

In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population - infected and uninfected - by influencing social norms, the economy, and the US's role as a world leader.

This book is an important addition to the public discussion of surrogate motherhood. The essays in this collection, originally published as a special issue of the journal Law, Medicine, and Health Car, examine the legal, ethical, civil liberties, women's autonomy, and public health aspects of the surrogacy debate.

First published in 2000, this title has been widely acclaimed as the definitive statement on public health law at the start of the twenty-first century. It analyzes the major health threats, from emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism to chronic diseases caused by obesity.