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When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality (Stanford Studies in Human Rights) 1st Edition
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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.
- ISBN-101503611302
- ISBN-13978-1503611306
- Edition1st
- Publication dateFebruary 4, 2020
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 0.78 x 9 inches
- Print length312 pages
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A tour de force for college and grad students as well as regular readers who want to understand the field of international health and human rights. The author has lived abroad, fought in the trenches and worked at the highest levels of the UN. The book blends these perspectives in a thoughtful and engaging manner. She utilizes trenchant stories from the ground to outline the history and issues faced whilst tying them to the evolution of the field as a whole. In fact, readers will recognize that this author has helped to create the discipline of health and human rights.