International health law and consumer autonomy

Abstract

Today, international health law and international consumer law are developing in the same direction and with much interaction. But the developments are not uniform. As international health law takes consumer protection into account, it tends to increase the gap between a “Western international law” and a “Third World international law,” and to emphasize the negative harmonization approach towards international health protection. Another problem concerns the unification of the rules of international health law and those of international consumer law. This problem is particularly difficult to solve, as the rules of international consumer law themselves are still far from being unified.