Bioethics and Human Rights in the Constitutional Formation of Global Health,

"Global Health"(Global Health) is an increasingly important area of research and practice, addressing the profound consequences of globalisation on the health of individuals and communities (particularly in developing countries) and focusing on achieving health equity for all people worldwide. As such, it is often seen as overlapping with public health and therefore conceptually distinct from the fields of biomedicine and bioethics. Both fields have an uneasy relationship with the field of human rights, which remains largely unexplored. The article constructively uses insights from theories of global legal pluralism and global constitutionalism to argue, perhaps controversially, that recent advances in international biomedical law and bioethics represent an important step in the constitutional construction of a global health law system. In doing so, the article examines the role of human rights in the growing constitutional autonomy and organisation of global health.