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A Global Public Goods Approach to the Health of Migrants

Heather Widdows & Herjeet Marway

Public Health Ethics 8 (2):121-129 (2015)

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Revising global theories of justice to include public goods.Heather Widdows & Peter G. N. West-Oram - 2013 - Journal of Global Ethics 9 (2):227 - 243.details Our aim in this paper is to suggest that most current theories of global justice fail to adequately recognise the importance of global public goods. Broadly speaking, this failing can be attributed at least in part to the complexity of the global context, the individualistic focus of most theories of justice, and the localised nature of the theoretical foundations of most theories of global justice. We argue ? using examples (particularly that of protecting antibiotic efficacy) ? that any truly effective (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Why Communities and Their Goods Matter: Illustrated with the Example of Biobanks.Heather Widdows & Sean Cordell - 2011 - Public Health Ethics 4 (1):14-25.details It is now being recognized across the spectrum of bioethics, and particularly in genetics and population ethics, that to focus on the individual person, and thereby neglect communities and the goods which accrue to them, is to fail to see all the ethically significant features of a range of ethical issues. This article argues that more work needs to be done in order for bioethics to respect not only goods (such as rights and interests) of communities per se, but also (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 13 citations
Is global ethics moral neo-colonialism? An investigation of the issue in the context of bioethics.Heather Widdows - 2007 - Bioethics 21 (6):305–315.details ABSTRACT This paper considers the possibility and desirability of global ethics in light of the claim that ‘global ethics’ in any form is not global, but simply the imposition of one form of local ethics – Western ethics – and, as such, a form of moral neo‐colonialism. The claim that any form of global ethics is moral neo‐colonialism is outlined using the work of a group of ‘developing world bioethicists’ who are sceptical of the possibility of global ethics. The work (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 15 citations
On the Morality of Immigration.Mathias Risse - 2008 - Ethics and International Affairs 22 (1):25–33.details This essay makes a plea for the relevance of moral considerations in debates about immigration. It offers a standpoint that demonstrates why one should think of immigration as a moral problem that must be considered in the context of global justice. Download Export citation Bookmark 18 citations
(1 other version)An exchange: The morality of immigration.Ryan Pevnick, Philip Cafaro & Mathias Risse - 2008 - Ethics and International Affairs 22 (3):241-259.details Writing in EIA 22, no. 1, Mathias Risse presented a novel way to think about the problem of immigration in the context of global justice, adopting the standpoint of the common ownership of the earth. The following Exchange is in response to that essay. Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations

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