This is the first book that analyzes the major obstacles of affordable access to drugs in developing countries – patent and non-patent factors and how they can be overcome through a middle ground approach and a new paradigm to establish global health justice which includes national and global health responsibilities.
Evaristus Chiedu Obi is currently a behavioral specialist consultant/ therapist at Community Psychiatric Centers, Pittsburgh. He has more than a decade of experience working with clients struggling with emotional and behavioral issues, as well as alcohol and other drugs (AOD). He is a priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria. He also completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) which includes a residency program at West Virginia University Hospitals. He studied Healthcare Ethics at Center for Healthcare Ethics, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in December, 2014. He also earned Master of Arts degree in Social and Public Policy and certificate in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies from the Duquesne, University. He also studied Social Work and Public Administration and received MSW and MPA degrees respectively from University of Pittsburgh in 2003. He received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Philosophy and Theology respectively from Pontifical Urban University, Rome. His research and teaching interests, include global bioethics and human rights, global health justice, pandemics, public health ethics, research ethics, theory of justice, moral and political philosophy with emphasis on modern and contemporary philosophers such as Kant, Rawls, Pogge and Norman Daniels, etc.
Innehållsförteckning
Dedication.- Acknowledgement.- Chapter 1: Global health inequalities and the quest for justice.- Chapter 2; Global clinical research.- Chapter 3; post-trial access to drugs in developing nations.- Chapter 4; National responsibility and humanitarian assistance.- Chapter 5; international responsibility and the health impact fund.- chapter six; global health responsibility.- Chapter 7; UNESCO declaration on bioethics and human rights.- Bibliography.