Assembling Health Rights in Global Context: Genealogies and Anthropologies (Routledge Studies in Public Health) - Hardcover

 
9780415530118: Assembling Health Rights in Global Context: Genealogies and Anthropologies (Routledge Studies in Public Health)
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ISBN 10: 0415530113 ISBN 13: 9780415530118
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

What do we mean when we talk about rights in relation to health? Where does the language of health rights come from, and what are the implications of using such a discourse?

During the last 20 years there have been an increasing number of initiatives and efforts – for instance in relation to HIV/AIDS – which draw on the language, institutions and procedures of human rights in the field of global health. This book explores the historical, cultural and social context of public health activists’ increasing use of rights discourse and examines the problems it can entail in practice.

Structured around three interlinked themes, this book begins by looking at what health as a right means for our understandings of citizenship and political subjectivities. It then goes on to look at how and why some health problems came to be framed as human rights issues. The final part of the book investigates what happens when health rights are put into practice – how these are implemented, realised, cited, ignored and resisted.

Assembling Health Rights in Global Context provides an in-depth discussion of the historical, anthropological, social and political context of rights in health and develops much needed critical perspectives on the human rights approach to global health. It will be of interest to scholars of public health and human rights within health care as well as sociology and anthropology.

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About the Author

Alex Mold is a Lecturer in History in the Centre for History and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

David Reubi is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415530113
ISBN 13 
9780415530118
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
200
Editor
Mold Alex, Reubi David

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