MEDICINE AND PUBLIC-HEALTH, ETHICS AND HUMAN-RIGHTS

There is more to modern health than new scientific discoveries, the de velopment of new technologies, or emerging or re-emerging diseases. Wo rld events and experiences, such as the AIDS epidemic and the humanita rian emergencies in Bosnia and Rwanda, have made this evident by creat ing new relationships among medicine, public health, ethics, and human rights. Each domain has seeped into the other, making allies of publi c health and human rights, pressing the need for an ethics of public h ealth, and revealing the rights-related responsibilities of physicians and other health care workers.