Perspectives on Health and Human Rights

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Sofia Gruskin
Psychology Press, 2005 - 649 من الصفحات
This anthology of articles collected by a cast of award-winning scholars in the field of public health illustrates that promoting and protecting human rights is fundamental to promoting and protecting health. New issues covered in this volume include: emerging technologies; family and health; responding to violence; and methods and strategies.
 

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Health and Human Rights
3
The UDHR Fifty Years of Synergy Between Health and Rights
59
Human Rights and Health The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 50
63
Health and Human Rights in Development
71
Rethinking Health and Human Rights Time for a Paradigm Shift
73
Human Rights in Development The Significance for Health
95
Indigenous Peoples and MegaProjects Hydroelectric Dams in the Land of the Pehuenches in the Highlands of the Bio Bio River Chile Utopia of Deve...
117
Health and Human Rights in Emerging Technologies
131
Methods in Health and Human Rights
379
Toward a Measure of Dignity Indicators for RightsBased Development
383
Measuring Human Rights
393
Tuberculosis Control and Directly Observed Therapy from the Public HealthHuman Rights Perspective
413
Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Issue Measuring Compliance with International Treaty Obligations
427
The Human Right to Health
469
General Comment No 14 2000 The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic Social a...
473
The Right to Health and the Nevirapine Case in South Africa
497

Protecting the Endangered Human Toward an International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations
135
Tying Prometheus Down Human Rights Issues of Human Genetic Manipulation
163
Patents and Medicines The Relationship between TRIPS and the Human Right to Health
179
TRIPS Pharmaceutical Patents and Access to Essential Medicines A Long Way From Seattle to Doha
203
Health and Human Rights in Sexual and Reproductive Health
223
Children Confronting HIVAIDS Charting the Confluence of Rights and Health
225
The Double Discourse on Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Latin America The Chasm between Public Policy and Private Actions
247
Sexual Rights in Southern Africa A Beijing Discourse or a Strategic Necessity?
271
Health and Human Rights in Understanding and Responding to Violence
293
Health Professionals and Lethal Injection Execution in the United States
295
Maternal Mortality in Herat Province Afghanistan
333
New Challenges for Humanitarian Protection
355
Economic Sanctions as Human Rights Violations Reconciling Political and Public Health Imperatives
367
The Human Right to Health National Courts and Access to HIVAIDS Treatment A Case Study from Venezuela
507
Mobilizing for Health and Human Rights
517
The Challenge and Place of International Human Rights in Public Health
519
Human Rights and the Politics of Risk and Blame Lessons from the International Reproductive Health Movement
527
The Role of Health Professionals in Protecting and Promoting Human Rights A Paradigm for Professional Responsibility
537
Teaching Human Rights in Graduate Health Education
549
The Evolving Arms Control Agenda Implications of the Role of NGOs in Banning Antipersonnel Landmines
569
Researching Health and Human Rights on the Web
607
Permissions
611
About the Contributors
615
About the Editors
619
Index
623
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Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA, is Associate Professor on Health and Human Rights in the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Director of the Program on International Health and Human Rights at the Harvard-based François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. Michael A. Grodin, M.D., is Co-Director of the Bioethics and Human Rights Program and Professor of Health Law, Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine and Psychiatry at the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine. Stephen P. Marksis the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. George J. Annasis the Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights at Boston University School of Public Health, and Professor in the Boston University School of Medicine and School of Law.

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