When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)

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Synopsis
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice 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 compelling narrative of how evolving legal norms, empirical knowledge, and development paradigms have interacted in the realization of health rights. When Misfortune Becomes Injustice reveals extraordinary progress in recognizing health-related claims as legal rights and understanding the policy implications of doing so over the last few decades. Yet Yamin challenges us to consider why these advances have failed to produce greater equality within and between nations, and how the human rights praxis must now urgently address threats to social and gender justice, in health and beyond.
Copyright:
2020

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
312 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781503611313
Related ISBNs:
9781503611306, 9781503605411, 9781503611306, 9781503605411
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
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Copyrighted By:
the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine
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Bookshare Staff
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