title: Academic freedom and global health.
abstract: There is a tension between the preservation of academic freedom and the economic context in which the university currently finds itself. This tension embodies serious threats to global health as a result of three overlapping phenomena which impede the production and diffusion of valuable knowledge about health. These phenomena, the privatisation, commercialisation and instrumentalisation of knowledge are identified and examined in this paper in relation to human rights and international morality.
authors: Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. donald.evans@otago.ac.nz
authors: Donald
authors: D
authors: Evans
mesh_terms: D032821:Commodification; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D032984:Ethics, Research; D005610:Freedom; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D011332:Privatization; D014495:Universities / Q000941:ethics*