A Human Right to What Kind of Health?

IF 0.7 Q4 SOCIAL WORK

Ethics and Social Welfare Pub Date : 2022-04-19 DOI:10.1080/17496535.2022.2062021

Kathryn Muyskens

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT Until now, it has mostly been assumed that the kind of health the human right to health is concerned with is clearly understood and universal. Here, I question this assumption and offer an explicitly political and pluralistic account of health that is designed to help guide international and cross-cultural interventions on behalf of health. In order to be a useful mechanism of accountability, the human right to health needs an enforceable minimum standard of health by which to judge situations and to determine if a violation of rights has occurred, but due to its international nature, it also needs to admit a large degree of cultural flexibility. With the account of health that I provide, I hope to clarify what makes up that minimum standard in a way that avoids unjustified parochial bias, while not being so permissive as to undermine the political force of a universal human right.

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享有何种健康的人权？

摘要到目前为止，人们大多认为健康权所涉及的健康类型是明确理解和普遍的。在这里，我对这一假设提出质疑，并对健康问题进行了明确的政治和多元描述，旨在帮助指导代表健康的国际和跨文化干预。为了成为一个有用的问责机制，健康权需要一个可执行的最低健康标准，用以判断情况和确定是否发生了侵犯权利的行为，但由于其国际性质，它还需要承认很大程度的文化灵活性。通过我提供的关于健康的说明，我希望澄清是什么构成了这一最低标准，以避免不合理的狭隘偏见，同时又不至于过于宽容，破坏普遍人权的政治力量。

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Ethics and Social Welfare SOCIAL WORK-

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1.60

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20.00%

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期刊介绍： Ethics and Social Welfare publishes articles of a critical and reflective nature concerned with the ethical issues surrounding social welfare practice and policy. It has a particular focus on social work (including practice with individuals, families and small groups), social care, youth and community work and related professions. The aim of the journal is to encourage dialogue and debate across social, intercultural and international boundaries on the serious ethical issues relating to professional interventions into social life. Through this we hope to contribute towards deepening understandings and further ethical practice in the field of social welfare. The journal welcomes material in a variety of formats, including high quality peer-reviewed academic papers, reflections, debates and commentaries on policy and practice, book reviews and review articles. We actively encourage a diverse range of contributions from academic and field practitioners, voluntary workers, service users, carers and people bringing the perspectives of oppressed groups. Contributions might include reports on research studies on the influence of values and ethics in social welfare practice, education and organisational structures, theoretical papers discussing the evolution of social welfare values and ethics, linked to contemporary philosophical, social and ethical thought, accounts of ethical issues, problems and dilemmas in practice, and reflections on the ethics and values of policy and organisational development. The journal aims for the highest standards in its published material. All material submitted to the journal is subject to a process of assessment and evaluation through the Editors and through peer review.