title: The role of solidarity in social responsibility for health.
abstract: The Article focuses on the concept of social solidarity, as it is used in the Report of the International Bioethics Committee On Social Responsibility and Health. It is argued that solidarity plays a major role in supporting the whole framework of social responsibility, as presented by the IBC. Moreover, solidarity is not limited to members of particular groups, but potentially extended to all human beings on the basis of their inherent dignity; this sense of human solidarity is a necessary presupposition for a genuinely universalistic morality of justice and human rights.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Via Olgettina 58, 20132, Milan, Italy. massimo.reichlin@unisr.it
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reichlin
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D014943:Global Health / Q000941:ethics*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000941:ethics*; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D012935:Social Justice / Q000941:ethics*; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014480:United Nations / Q000592:standards