Solidarity and the Encapsulated and Divided Histories of Health and Human Rights

Su-Ming Khoo
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Su-Ming Khoo: School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Laws, 2015, vol. 4, issue 2, 1-24

Abstract: This article examines the central but neglected principle of solidarity in human rights, health and bioethics, a concept subject to contention, evasion and confusion. It addresses the general ambivalence toward solidarity within law, philosophy and politics by discussing solidarity’s co-evolution with inegalitarian encapsulations and divisions of human rights. It argues that a renewed conception of solidarity is essential to meet increasingly salient ethical demands, as gender equality and the individualization of responsibilities coincide with deficits of care and collective responsibility. Questions of embodiedness, (inter)dependence, care and asymmetry are neglected by dominant liberal approaches, but are key to rethinking solidarity.

Keywords: solidarity; human rights; bioethics; encapsulated rights; gender; right to health; public health; care; collective responsibility; solidarity transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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