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1. Life, health and the environment : the denied connection / Laura Westra -- 2. Keeping nature alive : ethical principles on the environment and human health in state statutes / Katy Kintzele -- 3. Human rights, environmental duties : an ecological interpretation of international law / Megan J.M. Mitchell -- 4. The common heritage principle and public health : honouring our legacy / Prue Taylor -- 5. Aldo Leopold's concept of land health : implications for sound public health policy / Paul Carrick -- 6. Valuation of ecosystem services as an instrument for implementation of the European landscape convention / Joseph Sejak, Pavel Cudlin and Jan Pokorny -- 7. Less energy, better health? / Jack P. Manno -- 8. Canada's "rogue nation" position on asbestos / Colin L. Soskolne and Kathleen Ruff -- 9. Public health and primary prevention : past and present opportunities and barriers / Vladimir Bencko and John Quinn -- 10. Public healthcare in the time of transition : the need to revert to basics / Donald W. Spady -- 11. Migrants' access to healthcare in the Czech Republic : ethical challenges / Helena Hnilicova and Karolina Dobiasova -- 12. Gender, violation of human rights and mental health / Yuliya Lyamzina -- 13. The efficiency of cost-control policies in healthcare : does economic efficiency imply sustainability? / Tomas Zeleny -- 14. Ethical obligations of individuals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions / Donald A. Brown -- 15. Domains of climate ethics / Konrad Ott and Christian Baatz -- 16. Climate change and law : a constitutional perspective / Antonio D'Aloia -- 17. International groundwater law / Joseph W. Dellapenna -- 18. Environmental protection and the human right to water: complimentarity and tension / Owen McIntyre -- 19. State sponsored hate discrimination : the challenge to human rights at home and abroad / Kathleen Mahoney -- 20. The protection of cultural landscapes and indigenous heritage in international investment law / Valentina S. Vadi -- 21. "Some for all, forever" : a southern perspective on poverty, access to water, environmental health and the north-south divide / Louis J. Kotze -- 22. Are cows "climate killers"? / Franz-Theo Gottwald -- 23. Food security, public health, financial regimes and international law / John Quinn and Vladimir Bencko -- 24. Re-examining health protection in international environmental regulation / William Onzivu -- 25. The human impact on the ecosystem : past, present and future / Brunetto Anton Chiarelli -- 26. Introducing the rule of ecological law / Geoffrey Garver.

Contents.--An act to provide against infectious diseases. Passed 30th March, 1801.--Extracts from an act to invest the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the City of New-York, with adequate powers in relation to certain objects of importance to the police and health of the said city. Passed April 2d, 1803.--An act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act to provide against infectious and pestilential diseases." Passed February 28th, 1804.--An act relative to the public health, in the City of New-York. Passed 9th March, 1805.--A law for the establishment of a Board of Health [ordained by the Common Council of the City of New York, in accordance with the preceding legislative act of 1805]--Index.--Members of the Board of Health. 1805. ; Mode of access: Internet.

International investment law -- Public health in contemporary international law and policy -- The interplay between public health and foreign direct investments -- Access to medicines in international investment law and arbitration -- Trademark protection v. tobacco control in international investment law -- The environmental health spillovers of foreign direct investment in international investment arbitration -- Reconciling conflicting interests

Introduction -- The sources and actors of the international drug control system -- The emergence of the international drug control system -- The objective of the international drug control system : limitation of drugs to medical and scientific purposes -- The material scope of the international drug control system -- Challenges to the implementation of the international drug control system -- Concluding remarks and outlook

This publication is the second volume of Thematic Human Rights Guides published under the auspices of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. The aim of the Guides , as the title implies, is to facilitate the use of international human rights standards by their systematic presentation. Rather than reproducing full texts of various instruments, substantive standards are grouped according to subject-matter in order to enable users to quickly and easily locate the topic they may be looking for. A detailed index, with references to the many international instruments which address the same issue, reinforces this thematic approach. The choice of human rights and health for the second volume in this series highlights the aim of the Guides : to map out the entire range of human rights and fundamental freedoms as they relate to a specific topic. The sheer size of this volume illustrates the number and variety of human rights standards relevant for health. Many of these standards have been generated by organizations dealing with health rather than human rights, and quite a few are found under medical ethics rather than human rights. Subsuming medical ethics under international human rights law is a novel development, pioneered by the Council of Europe. Elsewhere, the two fields remain separate and the publication of this Guide is intended to overcome this separation. Documents have been included which provide an understanding of human rights within the health profession (such as guidance to medical doctors with regard to abortion adopted by the International Medical Association) and those human rights safeguards that have been elaborated to prevent abuses by health professionals (such as those concerning mental health). All of these standards provide a substantive background for inter-professional dialogue on the evolving understanding of human rights. A Thematic Guide to Documents on Health and Human Rights reflects the full range of issues encompassed by human rights and health. Besides the right to health, a wide range of rights and freedoms can be - and is - affected by the health sector. Priority has been accorded to the crucial human rights safeguards, namely those specifying protection against undue limitations or restrictions upon human rights. Much as with any other human rights topic, those safeguards are best developed for categories that are most vulnerable to denials and violations of their rights. Detainees, prisoners, victims of armed conflicts, children and the mentally ill thus figure prominently

"The global transmission of infectious diseases has fuelled the need for a more developed legal framework in international public health to provide prompt and specific guidance during a large-scale emergency. This book develops a means for States to take advantage of the flexibilities of compulsory licensing in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which promotes access to medicines in a public health emergency. It presents the precautionary approach (PA) and the structure of risk analysis as a means to build a workable reading of TRIPS and to help States embody the flexibilities of intellectual property (IP). The work investigates the complementary roles of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in order to promote the harmonisation of the precautionary approach in relation to the patenting of crucial pharmaceutical products. By bringing together international trade law and intellectual property law Phoebe Li demonstrates how through the use of risk analysis and the precautionary approach, States can still comply with their legal obligations in international law, while exercising their sovereignty right in issuing a compulsory licence of a drug patent in an uncertain public health emergency. This book will be of great interest to students and academics of medical and healthcare law, intellectual property law, and human rights law"--

"Many public health issues date back in history and are still with us to this day. Alcohol and other substance use is just one example of an old problem still with us and when combined with driving in today's world we get a dangerous combination. Public health efforts in this specific area have resulted in some positive developments and trends, but there is still much work to be done. In this book we have gathered recent international public health research not only about alcohol and driving, but also other public health topics from internationally renowned researchers from around the world, which we hope will be of interest to the readers"--