title: Bioethics and the Right to Health: Advancing a Complementary Agenda.
abstract: This special section in Health and Human Rights Journal explores the relationship between bioethics and the right to health. Although bioethics scholars may argue for a right to health, particularly in the domains of universal health coverage and global health governance, and human rights scholars may advance ethical norms in their work, there has been little scholarly attention to the intersections, synergies, and contrasts between these two areas of study. At first glance, this is surprising given that bioethics and human rights share conceptual and normative terrain in articulating guidance for action on health-related issues and international policy and practice is explicitly interrelating human rights and ethics.
authors.affiliation: Director of the Joint Centre for Bioethics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.affiliation: Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Global Health Equity, Lupina Assistant Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Director of the Comparative Program on Health and Society in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Forman
authors.affiliation: Director of the International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation (ICDR) and Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Stephanie A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Nixon
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D006262:Health; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs; D010506:Periodicals as Topic