Title:	The International Migration of Health Workers
Authors:	Rebecca S. Shah
Keywords:	Medical personnel, Foreign
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	This book provides, for the first time, a collection of works aimed specifically at sorting through this moral quagmire and bringing ethical discussion into unison with real world policy options. The chapters in this volume have been developed out of the presentations made at the conference ‘Global Health, Justice and the “Brain Drain”’ held at Keele University in 2007. I am delighted and impressed at the depth, breadth, originality and quality of the content developed out of such a modest beginning. My only regret is that the meagre conference budget was unable to fund participants from overseas, and as such contributors from poor countries are under-represented in this volume. Each chapter focuses on a distinctive aspect of the ‘brain drain’ debate, approaching it from different angles and disciplines. The chapters flow from analysis and conceptualisation of the phenomenon itself to normative considerations of the obligations of states and global institutions before narrowing down to the moral roles of individuals. Particular attention is paid throughout to human rights claims, to infusing theoretical debates with practical and applied perspectives and to considerations of what, if anything, justice requires. The book is distinctive among applied ethics volumes for embracing the diverse disciplinary perspectives necessary to gain a full understanding of the challenges. As such the book does not aim at, nor does it achieve, ethical consensus. As a whole the volume furnishes the reader with a richer, more nuanced understanding of the moral issues at stake and how they interact with policy options, and as such aims to contribute to ongoing debates about the international migration of health workers.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/50504
ISBN:	978-0-230-30729-2
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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