Health as a Human Right: The Politics and Judicialisation of Health in Brazil (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) - Hardcover

Ferraz, Octávio Luiz Motta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 110848364X ISBN 13: 9781108483643

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

An in-depth critical analysis of the effects of the right to health in Brazil over the past thirty years.

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About the Author

Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz is a Reader in Transnational Law at King's College London, where he co-directs the Transnational Law Institute, and a Senior Global Fellow at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo. He holds an LLB and MPhil in Law (University of São Paulo), an MA in Medical Ethics and Law (King's College London), where he won the Benjamin Geijsen prize and a PhD in Law (University College London), which he did under a Graduate School Scholarship. Previously he was a senior research officer to the UN Special Rapporteur for the right to health, an Associate Professor at Warwick Law School and practiced law in Sao Paulo, Brazil, mostly in the fields of corporate public law and medical law. He is still a member of the Brazilian Bar and contributes regularly to the Brazilian press. He has worked as a consultant to the World Bank and NGOs on human rights, the rule of law and development issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110848364X
• ISBN 13: 9781108483643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 362