Health Law, Ethics and Policy Workshop: Thana De Campos

Health Law, Ethics & Policy Seminar Series

presents 

Thana De Campos
Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
Research Associate, Global Strategy Lab, University of Ottawa
 

Is the Right to Health a Right to Well-Being?
Distinguishing the Essential and Non-Essential Health Needs 

Commentator:
Lisa Forman
Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Global Health Equity"
Lupina Assistant Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto 

Thursday, January 19, 2017
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park 

Thana De Campos argues that human rights advocates often use inflated and thus underspecified terminologies when addressing the content of their claims. One example of such loose terminology is the term ‘well-being’, as currently employed in connection with a definition for the right to health. Thana De Campos suggests that what she calls the ‘well-being conception of health’ conflates the distinct ideas of basic and non-basic health needs, as well as those of individual autonomy and freedom. She refers to this as the conflation problem. In her presentation, De Campos will argue for the need of an understanding of the right to health, nuanced enough to capture not only these distinct ideas, but also their moral relevance for the common good. 

Thana De Campos is Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, and a Research Associate at the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics and Human Rights, the Von Hugel Institute (University of Cambridge), the Las Casas Institute (University of Oxford), and the Global Strategy Law (University of Ottawa). She holds a DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford, and her book titled The Global Health Crisis - Ethical Responsibilities will be published in March by Cambridge University Press. 

A light lunch will be provided.
 

For more information about this workshop, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.