When misfortune becomes injustice : evolving human rights struggles for health and social equality

Summary: "This book surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades, with a focus on women's health and rights.Yamin waves together theory and firsthand experience in a compelling narrative of how evolving legal norms, empirical knowledge, and development paradigms have interacted in the realization of health rights."--book cover

Record details

ISBN: 9781503611306
ISBN: 1503611302
Physical Description: print
xv, 290 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-268) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : allegorizing the world -- Indignation and injustice -- The significances of suffering -- Diverging parables of progress -- Dystopian modernization -- Globalizing crises, pandemics, and norms -- Inequality, democracy, and health rights -- Power, politics, and knowledge -- Conclusions : turning toward the world we want.