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Thérèse Murphy, Colin Harvey - Health and Human Rights, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Health and Human Rights

Av Thérèse Murphy, Colin Harvey

Del i serien Human Rights Law in Perspective

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This book aims to bolster the burgeoning discourse of health and human rights. In so doing, it charts the history of the linkage between health and human rights. It also pinpoints the sense of imperative that surrounds this relationship. More importantly, the book identifies a series of threats and challenges facing attempts to link health and human rights and proposes how these might be addressed. Amongst other things, it asks: is conflict between risk and rights inevitable in the context of infectious disease control? Is reproductive choice a bad argument in the context of reproductive technologies? Is it sensible for human rights to make use of measurement tools such as indicators? Is the 'cost of human rights' an argument that can and should be used by proponents of human rights? The answers it gives to these questions are original and engaging and will be of great interest to a diverse audience, including scholars and policy-makers in these areas.
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Thérèse Murphy is Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham.

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The main strength of the book lies in the original approach taken to examining the diversity of health topics, the underlying themes that run throughout the book, and the overall central argument for an examination and consciousness regarding human rights legal method... this book will be of interest to human rights legal scholars and practitioners, health and medical lawyers, and also to those working on human rights methods more widely... With its refreshingly honest style of writing Health and Human Rights is scholarly, innovative and original, as well as interesting. Murphy's book encourages the human rights scholar to 'think both widely and deeply about health and human rights challenges' ( p. 19), and I recommend it as essential reading for anyone concerned with health and/or human rights.

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