This book deals with various facets of the human right to health: its normative profile as a universal right, current political and legal conflicts and contextualized implementation in different healthcare systems. The authors come from different countries and disciplines – law, political science, ethics, medicine etc. – and bring together a broad variety of academic and practical perspectives.
The volume contains selected contributions of the international conference "The Right to Health - an Empty Promise?" held in September 2015 in Berlin and organized by the Emerging Field Initiative Project "Human Rights in Healthcare" (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Sabine Klotz (Dipl.-Pol.) works in the Kraft Foundation Project »Human Rights and Ethics in the Medicine for Elderlys« (Graduate School) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Heiner Bielefeldt holds the chair for human rights and human right politics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and participated in the working group on »future values«. From 2010 to 2016 he was a Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Martina Schmidhuber (Dr. phil. fac. theol.) is a research fellow at the Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Andreas Frewer(Prof. Dr. med., M.A.) is professor for medical ethics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and European master in bioethics.