Assembling Health Rights in Global Context
Genealogies and Anthropologies
- 190 pages
- English
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Assembling Health Rights in Global Context
Genealogies and Anthropologies
About this book
What do we mean when we talk about rights in relation to health? Where does the language of health rights come from, and what are the implications of using such a discourse?
During the last 20 years there have been an increasing number of initiatives and efforts – for instance in relation to HIV/AIDS – which draw on the language, institutions and procedures of human rights in the field of global health. This book explores the historical, cultural and social context of public health activists' increasing use of rights discourse and examines the problems it can entail in practice.
Structured around three interlinked themes, this book begins by looking at what health as a right means for our understandings of citizenship and political subjectivities. It then goes on to look at how and why some health problems came to be framed as human rights issues. The final part of the book investigates what happens when health rights are put into practice – how these are implemented, realised, cited, ignored and resisted.
Assembling Health Rights in Global Context provides an in-depth discussion of the historical, anthropological, social and political context of rights in health and develops much needed critical perspectives on the human rights approach to global health. It will be of interest to scholars of public health and human rights within health care as well as sociology and anthropology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: global assemblages of virtue and vitality: genealogies and anthropologies of rights and health
- Part I: Rights, citizenships and subjectivities
- Part II: Making health rights
- Part III: Resistance, contestation and translation
- Index