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

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 :...

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1. Verfasser: Yamin, Alicia Ely (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California Stanford University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Stanford studies in human rights
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Zusammenfassung: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
"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 waves 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."--book cover
Beschreibung:xv, 290 Seiten
24 cm
ISBN:9781503611306
978-1-5036-1130-6
9781503605411