When misfortune becomes injustice : evolving human rights struggles for health and social equality /

"This book surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades, with a focus on women's health and rights. Yamin weaves together theory and firsthand experience in a narrative of how evolving legal norms, empirical knowled...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yamin, Alicia Ely (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Colección:Stanford studies in human rights.
Temas:
Right to health > History.
Human rights > Health aspects > History.
Health services accessibility > Law and legislation > History.
Women's health services > Law and legislation > History.
Medical policy > History.
LAW / Health.
Health services accessibility > Law and legislation.
Human rights > Health aspects.
Medical policy.
Right to health.
Women's health services > Law and legislation.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : allegorizing the world
  • Indignation and injustice
  • The significances of suffering
  • Diverging parables of progress
  • Dystopian modernization
  • Globalizing crises, pandemics, and norms
  • Inequality, democracy, and health rights
  • Power, politics, and knowledge
  • Conclusions : turning toward the world we want.

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