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Nancy E. Kass, ScD

Nancy E. Kass is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Nancy E. Kass, ScD, Hampton House 344, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail: nkass@jhsph.edu).

Gruskin raises important questions about the relationship between ethics and human rights as a tool for analyzing proposed public health policies. She suggests that ethics frameworks may be derivative of human rights frameworks. Indeed, the relationship between ethics and human rights has been discussed by several commentators. Clearly, while the language used by the 2 approaches may differ, in no way are they inconsistent in terms of what they would deem acceptable from a public policy perspective.

In trying to draw distinctions between the 2 approaches, Jonathan Mann suggested, in a 1997 article that human rights analysis should be used . . . [Full Text]

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