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Call for Publications Theme: Health Rights Subtitle: Individual, Collective and 'National' Publication: Bioethics Date: Special Issue Deadline: 1.9.2020 __________________________________________________ Recognition of rights to health or health care is increasingly common. International human rights law recognizes a right to health. Most world constitutions recognize rights to health care. Philosophical defenses of these and other socio-economic rights continue to gain traction. Yet even plausible theoretical defenses of these ‘health rights’ raise a classic question: How does one weigh individual rights against competing ‘collective’ rights and/or non-rights-based values? This question commonly arises in the health care setting where (i) states are often understood to hold the correlative duties to recognized health rights and (ii) national health care systems and policies can be useful means of fulfilling those duties, and yet (iii) providing the state with strong authority in the health care setting can undermine plausible collective rights, including collective rights to make health care decisions for the collective and/or use collective health care goods, and (iv) many existing legal regimes recognize these collective rights. The sub-issues are pressing in the health care setting since their resolution can have serious consequences in the health of human beings. Indeed, regardless of whether one recognizes collective rights, there will be conflicts between individual health rights and other broader collective goods, such as the values of subsidiary, diversity, national self-determination, and cultural protections. These goods could provide limits on individual health rights, if not grounds for collective rights, including national self-determination rights. Whether and how to weigh these competing claims has important implications for our understanding of rights and for practical questions about how to respond to rights claims in law and politics. This special issue seeks to resolve these tensions by examining the relationship between different health rights claims and its practical and theoretical implications. Topics that may be addressed by submissions include: - What should one do when individual rights to specific health care goods conflict with collective rights? - What about conflicts between individual rights and greater non-rights-based community values? - Do sub-state units like nations-within-nations possess collective health rights? If so, what makes these units special – either generally or in the health care setting – such that they possess health rights? - Can the good that makes them special outweigh individual goods? Individual rights? The force of individual rights? - What would these kinds of rights entail as a matter of political morality? Of law? - What would the implications of recognition be for the design of health care systems? - Do these issues impact how we resolve cases (e.g., Indigenous self-governance in health care, conflicts between the value of maximizing individual health outcomes and the value of traditional medicine)? The editors invite contributions from scholars in bioethics, philosophy, law, public policy, and other relevant areas to answer these and related questions. Consistent with Bioethics’ norms, we will, all-else-being-equal, prefer theoretical works with practical suggestions and practical works that engage theory. The editors welcome early discussion of brief proposals and/or abstracts by email to: michael.dasi...@mcgill.ca Manuscripts should be submitted to Bioethics online at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/biot Please ensure that you select the manuscript type ‘Special Issue’and state that your contribution is for the “Health Rights” Special Issue when prompted. Submit through regular processes for Bioethics, paying attention to their normal standards for publication. Full details are also available here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/14678519/BIOE%20-%20Health%20Rights%20CFP.pdf Journal website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678519 __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
