Justice across boundaries : whose obligations? /

Who ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress? In this collection of essays on justice beyond borders, Onora O'Neill criticises theoretical approaches that concentrate on rights, yet ignore both the obligations that must be met to realize those rights, and the capacities...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Neill, Onora (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Hunger across Boundaries: 1. Lifeboat Earth; 2. Rights, obligations and world hunger; 3. Rights to compensation
  • Part II. Justifications across Boundaries: 4. Justice and boundaries; 5. Ethical reasoning and ideological pluralism; 6. Bounded and cosmopolitan justice; 7. Pluralism, positivism and the justification of human rights
  • Part III. Action across Boundaries: 8. From Edmund Burke to twenty-first-century human rights: abstraction, circumstances and globalisation; 9. From statist to global conceptions of justice; 10. Global justice: whose obligations?; 11. Agents of justice; 12. The dark side of human rights
  • Part IV. Health across Boundaries: 13. Public health or clinical ethics: thinking beyond borders; 14. Broadening bioethics: clinical ethics, public health and global health
  • Index.