Indigenous Health Ethics: An Appeal to Human Rights

This book examines the intersections of bioethics, human rights and health equity. It does so through the contextual lenses of nation states while presenting global themes on rights, colonialism and bioethics. The book is framed by the following propositions on indigenous health: it is a human rights issue; it is located within the politics of colonization; and subjugated indigenous knowledges require restoring.

Readership: Primary Market: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the fields Bioethics/Healthcare Ethics/Health Sciences/ Social Sciences/Law/ Human Rights/ Indigenous Studies/Anthropology and Medicine. Secondary Market: Health policy makers involved in human rights, international law or public health.

Deborah Zion, Associate Professor Deborah Zion chairs the Human Research Ethics Committee at Victoria University in Melbourne. She has spent many years teaching, investigating and writing about ethics and vulnerable populations, including persons with HIV/AIDS and asylum seekers. She has published extensively in both areas across a range of bioethics, medical and public health journals, looking at questions related to ethics and justice.

Linda Briskman, Professor Linda Briskman holds the Margaret Whitlam Chair of Social Work at Western Sydney University in Australia. Her areas of research and advocacy include Indigenous rights, asylum seeker rights and challenging Islamophobia. She has worked extensively in the field of Indigenous rights as both a practitioner and academic. Recent books include Social Work in the Shadow of the Law (2018 with Simon Rice and Andrew Day) and Social Work with Indigenous Communities: A human rights approach (2014). She is co-researcher on an Indigenous project Rainbow Knowledge.

Alireza Bagheri-chimeh is a physician-clinical ethicist and currently is a research affiliate with the Center for Healthcare Ethics in Lakehead University in Canada and provides ethics consultation at the Regional Health Science Center. He is an Elected Fellow of The Hastings Center (USA) and was an Assistant Professor of medicine and medical ethics in Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran. He served as a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (2010–2018) and on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics (2009–2014). He serves as the book series editor; Intercultural Dialogue in Bioethics by the Imperial College Press. In 2010, Dr Bagheri received the Rhazes Medical Research Award for his work on medical futility and in 2018, he received the Bioethics Leadership Award in recognition of his contribution to the discipline of bioethics scholarship at the international level.