A Critical Comment on Collste

Public Health Ethics 4 (2):203-205 (2011)
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This article claims that the account of specification as a way to solve conflicts between rights, suggested by Göran Collste, is unsatisfactory. It is argued that specification is not a solution on its own, but is better described as a remedy in response to a political failure

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Marcus Agnafors
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Rescuing Justice and Equality.G. A. Cohen (ed.) - 2008 - Harvard University Press.
Subject index.G. A. Cohen - 2008 - In Rescuing Justice and Equality. Harvard University Press. pp. 425-430.
Specifying Rights: the Case of TRIPS.G. Collste - 2011 - Public Health Ethics 4 (1):63-69.

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