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Health and human rights : basic international documents / edited by Stephen P. Marks.

Title
Health and human rights : basic international documents / edited by Stephen P. Marks.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Marks, Stephen P., 1943-
  • François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Description
viii, 318 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
"This collection of basic texts on health and human rights is designed to provide the practitioner, scholar, and advocate with easy access to key instruments of international law and policy that express the values of human rights for advancing health. This is a revised and expanded second edition of the edition published in 2004 as the first in a Series on Health and Human Rights produced by the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and distributed by Harvard University Press."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Harvard series on health and human rights
Uniform Title
Harvard series on health and human rights
Subject
  • Health > Social aspects
  • Human rights > Health aspects
  • Medical policy > Social aspects
  • Right to health
  • Legislation, Medical
  • Health Policy > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Health Services Accessibility > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Human Rights > legislation & jurisprudence
Genre/Form
Legislation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. Health and Medical Professions -- II. The Right to Health -- III. Protection of Existence and Physical Intehrity -- IV. Health Aspects of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living (Other Than the Right to Health) -- V. Health and Human Rights of Vulnerable Populations -- VI. Human Rights Aspects of Health Policy -- VII. Biotechnology -- VIII. Protection of the Environment.
ISBN
0674018095 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2004117297
OCLC
  • 60671624
  • SCSB-10525465
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library