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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138960284 ISBN 13: 9781138960282

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138960284
• ISBN 13: 9781138960282
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Mold Alex, Reubi David