Health and Human Rights: A Reader, including contributions by doctors, lawyers and government representatives, is the first comprehensive anthology of essays in this new field to address the balance between public health and human rights awareness.
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This is a thought provoking book that is intended to make the reader to sit up and take action. This is a must book for all academic libraries and a must-read book for all researchers who study this complex issue that is ever present throughout the world. -- AIDS Book Journal
This is a rich and varied collection ranging from cogent exegeses on ethnic cleansing and female genital mutilation to scholarly dissertations on human rights and public health. The essays are powerful statements supported by impressive scholarships enhanced by the authors' personal experience...Students, researchers, and scholars in the field have much to choose from in this work, which is augmented by an excellent index and detailed bibliography. -- William E. Seldelman, The Lancet
One cannot, one must not, approach medicine today without looking for its ethical component: read this important volume and you will understand why
. -- Elie Wiesel
Human rights violations persist in many forms. I hopethat these terrible examples will remind us that silence from political leaders, is what oppressors most desire and what the oppressed most fear
. -- Jimmy Carter
Without human rights people and their communities cannot be fully healthy. This remarkable volume explores the responsibilities of health professionals for promoting and protecting human rights, thereby promoting and protecting the health of their patients and communities
. -- Victor Sidel, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The value of the collection extends beyond its application to HIV/AIDS, in two fundamental ways. First, the papers widen the scope of one's perspectice of health . . . a matter of recognizing that efforts to protect human rights will influence positively the health of individuals in more ways that one. . . . Second, the collection provides a basis for acting in areas that, traditionally, have been outside the scope of health professionals. . . . A human rights perspective provides a normative basis for analysis, advocacy, and intervention on societal factors that predetermine health. -- HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review
Health and Human Rights is a valuable basic reader, as its short chapters provide effective shapshots of areas of profound concern...the volume is primarily intended as a practical guide for professionals... -- Polly Vizard, Recent Books on Ethics and International Affairs
The reader is useful as a springboard for high-level discussions about fundamental issues in these fields, for both scholars and graduate students. Regardless of a reader's discipline or the role played in these fields, he or she comes away from this work moved, energized, and recommitted to the exhaustive, yet important, work of protecting the public's health and humanity's well-being. The complementarity suggested here brings a hopeful side in the form of a new way of defining and solving public health and human rights challenges. -- Health Promotion Practice, October 2002
This is a rich and varied collection ranging from cogent exegeses on ethnic cleansing and female genital mutilation to scholarly dissertations on human rights and public health. The essays are powerful statements supported by impressive scholarships enhanced by the authors' personal experience...Students, researchers, and scholars in the field have much to choose from in this work, which is augmented by an excellent index and detailed bibliography. -- William E. Seldelman, The Lancet
One cannot, one must not, approach medicine today without looking for its ethical component: read this important volume and you will understand why
. -- Elie Wiesel
Human rights violations persist in many forms. I hopethat these terrible examples will remind us that silence from political leaders, is what oppressors most desire and what the oppressed most fear
. -- Jimmy Carter
Without human rights people and their communities cannot be fully healthy. This remarkable volume explores the responsibilities of health professionals for promoting and protecting human rights, thereby promoting and protecting the health of their patients and communities
. -- Victor Sidel, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The value of the collection extends beyond its application to HIV/AIDS, in two fundamental ways. First, the papers widen the scope of one's perspectice of health . . . a matter of recognizing that efforts to protect human rights will influence positively the health of individuals in more ways that one. . . . Second, the collection provides a basis for acting in areas that, traditionally, have been outside the scope of health professionals. . . . A human rights perspective provides a normative basis for analysis, advocacy, and intervention on societal factors that predetermine health. -- HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review
Health and Human Rights is a valuable basic reader, as its short chapters provide effective shapshots of areas of profound concern...the volume is primarily intended as a practical guide for professionals... -- Polly Vizard, Recent Books on Ethics and International Affairs
The reader is useful as a springboard for high-level discussions about fundamental issues in these fields, for both scholars and graduate students. Regardless of a reader's discipline or the role played in these fields, he or she comes away from this work moved, energized, and recommitted to the exhaustive, yet important, work of protecting the public's health and humanity's well-being. The complementarity suggested here brings a hopeful side in the form of a new way of defining and solving public health and human rights challenges. -- Health Promotion Practice, October 2002
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This book presents a terrific introduction to the role of human rights in public health practice. While quite accessible, some may wish to augment this book with additional readings- perhaps Just Health Care by Normal Daniels?
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This book was pretty thorough for documenting health and human rights in several areas of the world, apart from those in the middle east. A gross omission was the case of Iraq. It had an appendix with the declaration of human rights (plus others) for those interested in the "ideal" Otherwise, it was a great introduction into health and human rights.
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Health and human rights have rarely been linked in an explicit manner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reproductive health paradigm, maternal technology, human rights impact assessment, human rights burdens, transmission prevention trials, individual risk reduction, human rights quality, medical neutrality, contraceptive programs, human rights paradigm, tal mutilation, public health quality, public health methods, reproductive health information, societal determinants, modern human rights, public health tools, human genetic diversity, lesbian health, rights collaboration, family planning information, human rights goals, public health goals, public health objective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Nuremberg Code, Red Cross, General Assembly, World Health Organization, Harvard School of Public Health, Third World, World War, Civilian Mission, Harvard University Press, Karl Brandt, Oxford University Press, Rudolf Brandt, World Bank, General Comment, South Africa, Declaration of Helsinki, Amnesty International, International Conference, Journal of the American Medical Association, Supreme Court, United Kingdom, University of California, British Medical New!
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Health and human rights have rarely been linked in an explicit manner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reproductive health paradigm, maternal technology, human rights impact assessment, human rights burdens, transmission prevention trials, individual risk reduction, human rights quality, medical neutrality, contraceptive programs, human rights paradigm, tal mutilation, public health quality, public health methods, reproductive health information, societal determinants, modern human rights, public health tools, human genetic diversity, lesbian health, rights collaboration, family planning information, human rights goals, public health goals, public health objective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Nuremberg Code, Red Cross, General Assembly, World Health Organization, Harvard School of Public Health, Third World, World War, Civilian Mission, Harvard University Press, Karl Brandt, Oxford University Press, Rudolf Brandt, World Bank, General Comment, South Africa, Declaration of Helsinki, Amnesty International, International Conference, Journal of the American Medical Association, Supreme Court, United Kingdom, University of California, British Medical New!
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- Health and Human Rights: A Reader by the late Jonathan Mann on 8 pages
- Children As Research Subjects: Science, Ethics, and Law by Michael A. Grodin on page 333, page 356, and page 486
- Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin on page 19, and page 69
- The Rights of Patients: The Basic ACLU Guide to Patient Rights (ACLU Handbook) by Professor George J. Annas J.D. M.P.H. on page 333, and page 356
- The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation by George J. Annas on page 329, and page 486
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- Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic by Lawrence O. Gostin on 6 pages
- American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries by George J. Annas on 5 pages
- Crossing Borders: Migration, Ethnicity and AIDS (Social Aspects of AIDS) by Mary Haour-Knipe on 4 pages
- Engendering Human Rights: Cultural and Socio-Economic Realities in Africa (Comparative Feminist Studies) by Obioma Nnaemeka on 4 pages
- Your Life or Mine: How Geoethics Can Resolve the Conflict Between Public and Private Interests in Xenotransplantation by Martine Rothblatt in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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