When Misfortune Becomes Injustice

Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality

Alicia Ely Yamin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2020
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0541-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Alicia Ely Yamin has spent half of her professional career working outside the United States, with and through local organizations. She currently leads the Global Health and Rights Project, a collaboration of the Petrie-Flom Center on Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. Yamin is known globally for her pioneering scholarship and advocacy in relation to economic and social rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and the right to health.

Introduction: Allegorizing the World

1. Indignation and Injustice

2. The Significances of Suffering

3. Diverging Parables of Progress

4. Dystopian Modernization

5. Globalizing Crises, Pandemics, and Norms

6. Inequality, Democracy, and Health Rights

7. Power, Politics, and Knowledge

Conclusions: Turning Toward the World We Want

Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	Stanford Studies in Human Rights
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5036-0541-8 / 1503605418
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-0541-1 / 9781503605411
Zustand	Neuware