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Individual Responsibility for Promoting Global Health: The Case for a New Kind of Socially Conscious Consumption

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Title
Individual Responsibility for Promoting Global Health: The Case for a New Kind of Socially Conscious Consumption
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The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, January 2021
DOI 10.1177/1073110516654125
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Nicole Hassoun

Abstract

The problems of global health are truly terrible. Millions suffer and die from diseases like tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. One way of addressing these problems is via a Global Health Impact labeling campaign (http://global-health-impact.org/). If even a small percentage of consumers promote global health by purchasing Global Health Impact products, the incentive to use this label will be substantial. One might wonder, however, whether consumers are morally obligation to purchase any these goods or whether doing so is even morally permissible. This paper suggests that if the proposal is implemented, purchasing Global Health Impact labelled goods is at least morally permissible, if not morally required. Its argument should, moreover, be of much more general interest to those considering different kinds of ethical consumption.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 25%
Student > Bachelor 3 15%
Student > Master 3 15%
Librarian 2 10%
Other 1 5%
Other 3 15%
Unknown 3 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 25%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 20%
Social Sciences 4 20%
Psychology 2 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 3 15%