Research Catalog

Title

Litigating health rights : can courts bring more justice to health? / edited by Alicia Ely Yamin and Siri Gloppen.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School : Harvard University Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Yamin, Alicia Ely.
• Gloppen, Siri.

Description

viii, 435 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Human rights practice series

Uniform Title

Human Rights Program practice series.

Subject

• Medical care > Law and legislation
• Right to health
• Health services accessibility
• Medical policy
• Right to health > Cross-cultural studies
• Health services accessibility > Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-406) and index.

Contents

Introduction: can litigation bring justice to health / Siri Gloppen and Mindy Jane Roseman -- Litigating health rights : framing the analysis / Siri Gloppen -- Argentina : courts and the right to health : achieving fairness despite "routinization" in individual coverage cases / Paola Bergallo -- Brazil : health inequalities, rights, and courts : the social impact of the judicialization of health / Octavio L. Motta Ferraz -- Colombia : judicial protection of the right to health : an elusive promise / Alicia Ely Yamin, Oscar Parra-Vera, and Camila Gianella -- Costa Rica : health rights litigation : causes and consequences / Bruce M. Wilson -- India : citizens, courts, and the right to health : between promise and progress / Sharanjeet Parmar and Namita Wahi -- South Africa : health rights litigation : cautious constitutionalism / Carole Cooper -- Dialogic justice in the enforcement of social rights : some initial arguments / Roberto Gargarella -- Litigating the right to health : are transnational actors backseat driving / Mindy Jane Roseman and Siri Gloppen -- Assessing the impact of health rights litigation : a comparative analysis of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, and South Africa / Ottar Maestad, Lise Rakner, and Octavio L. Motta Ferraz -- Litigating for medicines : how can we assess impact on health outcomes / Ole Frithjof Norheim and Siri Gloppen -- Power, suffering, and courts : reflections on promoting health rights through judicialization / Alicia Ely Yamin.

Call Number

JBE 14-517

ISBN

• 9780979639555 (pbk.)
• 0979639557 (pbk.)

LCCN

2011017921

OCLC

676725395

Title

Litigating health rights : can courts bring more justice to health? / edited by Alicia Ely Yamin and Siri Gloppen.

Imprint

Cambridge, MA : Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School : Harvard University Press, c2011.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Human rights practice series

Human Rights Program practice series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-406) and index.

Added Author

Yamin, Alicia Ely.

Gloppen, Siri.

Research Call Number

JBE 14-517