Human Rights and Public Health Ethics

26 July 2010

(A joint meeting of the IAB’s Public Health Ethics Network (InterPHEN) and the Philosophy and Bioethics Network)

 
This satellite meeting seeks to explore the potential contribution of human rights to public health ethics. The kinds of questions to be explored will include the following: What contribution can human rights play in relation to public health ethics? Would a full account of human rights supply all that we need to resolve ethical issues in public health? If not, what is missing, and can it be combined coherently with human rights? What problems or limits are there to the idea of human rights as the foundation for public health ethics? Can they be overcome? Are any alternative moral frameworks preferable to human rights? Can such alternatives capture important and necessary features of public health that remain immune to a human rights approach? Does the application of human rights mean that many traditional public health activities (e.g. surveillance, contact tracing, quarantine and detention etc) are to be considered illegitimate or can they be defended using a human rights approach

 
To register, please send an email, including your name and contact details, to public.health.ethics.workshop@gmail.com. A registration fee of SG$65 will be collected onsite. Please note that only cash will be accepted.