Biolaw and Policy in the Twenty-First Century pp 299-321 | Cite as
Palliative Cares as Human Rights: A Justification in the Light of Biolaw
Abstract
In this chapter, the author addresses the necessity to recognize Palliative Care as a human right, which means to endow it with two essential characteristics: its enforceability, that is, the punishability of those acts that ignore and/or skip it: and its universality regardless of individual conditions of people. Hence, the State must be the guarantor not only of the right to health but of the complete state of well-being as referred by the World Health Organization. Her conclusion is that denying palliative care to a patient, or not contemplating it as a certain and appropriate option in the health care system, imputes to the State a particular international responsibility, with consequent sanctions that could be applied.
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