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'law And Global Health' Is The Latest Volume In The 'current Legal Issues' Series. It Contains A Broad Range Of Articles From Scholars And Public Health Experts Discussing The Interaction Between Law And Public Health In Low-, And Middle- And High-income Countries. What Is Health? / Charles Foster And Jonathan Herring -- Pathways Towards A Framework Convention On Global Health: Political Mobilization For The Human Right To Health / Kent Buse, Lawrence Gostin And Eric Friedman -- The Bloodless Ideological Supreme Court Battle Over The Affordable Care Act And The 'right To Health' In America / George Annas -- Conceptualising Implementation Of The Right To Health: The Learning Network For Health And Human Rights, Western Cape, South Africa / Maria Stutaford -- Access To Essential Medicines In Kenya: Intellectual Property, Anti-counterfeiting And The Right To Health / John Harrington -- Vulnerability: An Issue For Law And Policy In Pandemic Planning? / Belinda Bennett And Terry Carney -- Legally Vulnerable: What Is Vulnerability And Who Is Vulnerable? / Hazel Biggs And Caroline Jones -- The Echr, Health Care And Irregular Migrants / Sylvie Da Lomba. Rights-based Approaches To Hiv In The Middle East And North Africa Region / David Patterson, Shereen El Feki And Khadija Moalla -- Indigenous People, Emerging Research And Global Health / Mark Henaghan -- Human Trafficking And Organ Trade: Does The Law Really Care For The Health Of People? / Daniel Sperling -- Cross Border Commercial Surrogacy: A Global Patchwork Of Inconsistency And Confusion / Kerry Petersen -- Maternal Mortality And Human Rights: From Theory To Practice / Judith Bueno De Mesquita -- Disability, Human Rights And Global Health: Past, Present And Future / Maya Sabatello -- What Can Human Rights Do For Women's Health? / Kristine Hessler -- The Practice Of Uvulectomy In Chad, Children's Rights And Public Health Challenges / Jacquineau Azetsop -- Adding Non-ideal Agents To Work Out A Pending Debt / Florencia Lu
This volume investigates the complex intersection of legal frameworks and public health initiatives across diverse global economic contexts. The editors, Belinda Bennett, Michael D. A. Freeman, and Sarah Hawkes, curate a collection of scholarly contributions that examine how legal structures influence health outcomes, human rights, and policy implementation. By synthesizing perspectives from legal experts and public health practitioners, the text argues that law acts as both a facilitator and a barrier to achieving equitable health standards worldwide.
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Experts identify this volume as a significant contribution to the Current Legal Issues series, noting its utility for researchers and policymakers interested in the intersection of human rights and health. Readers frequently highlight the academic density of the prose and the breadth of the international case studies provided.
Page Count:
600
Publication Date:
2014-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
019100345X
ISBN-13:
9780191003455
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