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The International Migration And Recruitment Of Nurses: Human Rights And Global Justice, Lawrence O. Gostin
The International Migration And Recruitment Of Nurses: Human Rights And Global Justice, Lawrence O. Gostin
O'Neill Institute Papers
The international migration of health workers – physicians, nurses, midwives, and pharmacists – leaves the world’s poorest countries with severe human resource shortages, seriously jeopardizing the achievement of the U.N. health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Advocates for global health call active recruitment in low-income countries a crime. Despite the pronounced international concern, there is little research and few solutions. This commentary focuses on the international recruitment of internationally educated nurses (IENs) from the perspective of human rights and global justice. It explains the complex reasons for nurse shortages in rich and poor countries; the duties of source and host countries; …
Book Review: Elizabeth Wicks' Human Rights And Healthcare, Barbara A. Noah
Book Review: Elizabeth Wicks' Human Rights And Healthcare, Barbara A. Noah
Faculty Scholarship
The Author reviews the book Human Rights and Healthcare, by Elizabeth Wicks and published by Hart Publishing, 2007. Although the book focuses mainly on rights within the United Kingdom, those familiar with healthcare and bioethics issues within the United States or elsewhere will find it an extremely useful comparative resource.
The Legacy Of The Nuremberg Doctors' Trial To American Bioethics And Human Rights, George J. Annas
The Legacy Of The Nuremberg Doctors' Trial To American Bioethics And Human Rights, George J. Annas
Faculty Scholarship
In this lecture I argue that modern bioethics was born at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial, a health law trial that produced one of the first major human rights documents: the Nuremberg Code. Accepting this conclusion has significant consequences for contemporary American bioethics generally, and specifically in the context of our continuing global war on terror in which the United States uses physicians to help in interrogations, torture, and force-feeding hunger strikers.
The primary force shaping the agenda, development, and current state of American bioethics has not been either medicine or philosophy, but law, best described as health law. Like bioethics, …