Research Catalog

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, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
• François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, issuing body.
• Marks, Stephen P., 1943-

Description

xvi, 551 p. : charts; 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 third edition, building on the first and second editions published in 2004 and 2006 respectively. It is part of the Series on Health and Human Rights produced 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
• Health Policy > legislation & jurisprudence
• Health Services Accessibility > legislation & jurisprudence
• Human Rights > legislation & jurisprudence
• Human rights > Health aspects
• Legislation, Medical
• Medical policy > Social aspects
• Right to health

Genre/Form

Legislation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- I. Basic texts in human rights : A. International Bill of Human Rights -- B. Major interpretations and statements on human rights -- II. Basic texts in bioethics : A. Professional ethics -- B. Research and experimentation -- C. Bioethics and biotechnology -- III. Basic texts on the right to health : A. UN texts on the right to health -- B. Regional texts on the right to health -- C. Other general texts on health and human rights -- IV. Protection of life and physical integrity : A. The right to life -- B. Freedom from torture and other forms of abuse -- C. Disappearances and summary and extra-judicial execution -- D. Armed conflict, crimes against humanity, and genocide -- V. Health aspects of the right to an adequate standard of living (Other than the right to health) -- A. The right to an adequate standard of living in general -- B.The rights to adequate food, water and sanitation, adequate housing, and education -- VI. Health and human rights of vulnerable populations : A. Women and reproductive health -- B. Children -- C. Mental health and disabilities -- D. Migration and trafficked persons -- E. Elder persons -- F. Other vulnerable populations -- VII. Human rights aspect of health policy : A. Infectious diseases -- B. Business, trade, and intellectual property -- C. Non-communicable diseases and health harms -- VIII. Protection of the environment -- B. Human rights and sustainable development.

ISBN

• 9780674073326 (pbk.)
• 0674073320 (pbk.)

OCLC

820637227

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library