Eduardo Arenas Catalán, Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Department of Criminal, International and European Law, Open University, the Netherlands

'In this compelling study of the human right to health, Eduardo Arenas Catalán moves beyond a common focus on access to care enforced by judges, indicting failures to challenge commercialization of life itself in our time. The results convincingly situate extant doctrine and jurisprudence, whether from international law and national settings, within an ambitious agenda of making social rights more genuinely solidaristic.'

• Contents: Preface 1. Human rights and commercialization 2. The predominant interpretation of the right to health 3. Solidarity and health 4. The right to health as a social right 5. The adjudication of the right to health 6. Solidarity and the right to health: provision and financing of healthcare 7. Conclusions Bibliography Index

Eduardo Arenas Catalán, Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Department of Criminal, International and European Law, Open University, the Netherlands

'In this compelling study of the human right to health, Eduardo Arenas Catalán moves beyond a common focus on access to care enforced by judges, indicting failures to challenge commercialization of life itself in our time. The results convincingly situate extant doctrine and jurisprudence, whether from international law and national settings, within an ambitious agenda of making social rights more genuinely solidaristic.'

• Contents: Preface 1. Human rights and commercialization 2. The predominant interpretation of the right to health 3. Solidarity and health 4. The right to health as a social right 5. The adjudication of the right to health 6. Solidarity and the right to health: provision and financing of healthcare 7. Conclusions Bibliography Index