
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice
Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality
- 328 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice
Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality
About this book
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice 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 weaves 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.
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice reveals extraordinary progress in recognizing health-related claims as legal rights and understanding the policy implications of doing so over the last few decades. Yet Yamin challenges us to consider why these advances have failed to produce greater equality within and between nations, and how the human rights praxis must now urgently address threats to social and gender justice, in health and beyond.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Allegorizing the World
- 1 Indignation and Injustice
- 2 The Significances of Suffering
- 3 Diverging Parables of Progress
- 4 Dystopian Modernization
- 5 Globalizing Crises, Pandemics, and Norms
- 6 Inequality, Democracy, and Health Rights
- 7 Power, Politics, and Knowledge
- Conclusions: Turning Toward the World We Want
- Notes
- Index