1st Edition

Assembling Health Rights in Global Context Genealogies and Anthropologies

Edited By Alex Mold, David Reubi Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction -- Global Assemblages of Virtue and Vitality: Genealogies and Anthropologies of Rights and Health  David Reubi and Alex Mold  Part 1: Rights, Citizenship and Subjectivities  1. Not Rights but Reciprocal Responsibility: the Rhetoric of State Health Provision in Early Twentieth Century Britain  Jane Seymour  2. Unauthorised Immigrants and the Denial of the Right to Health Care in the United States  Beatrix Hoffman  3. Rights, Responsibility, and Health Services: Human Rights as an Idiomatic Language of Power  Jarrett Zigon  Part 2: Making Health Rights  4. The Political Evolution of Health as a Human Right: Conceptualizing Public Health under International Law, 1940s-1990s  Benjamin Meier  5. Health Right or Human Right? Changing Tides in the International Discussion of Female Genital Mutilation, 1970-2010  Marion Hulverscheidt  6. Constructing Tobacco Control as a Human Rights Issue: Smoking, Lawyers and the Judicialisation of the Right to Health  David Reubi  Part 3: Resistance, Contestation and Translation  7. From Isolation to ‘Living Together’: Human Rights in Japanese HIV/AIDS Discourse  Hannah Waterson  8. Evidence-Based Advocacy and the Retreat From Rights in Safe Motherhood Discourse’  Katerini Storeng and Dominque Béhague  9. State of Exception, Culture of Medical Police: SARS, and the law of no rights in the People’s Republic of China  Christos Lynteris

Biography

Alex Mold is a Lecturer in History in the Centre for History and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

David Reubi is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

'All in all this collection is a coherent whole and offers an interesting and thought provoking overview of historical and recent developments in the confounded relation between human rights and health policies. The volume may enrich our understanding of and propel the discussion about international health policies'. - Harry Oosterhuis, Maastricht University, Oxford Journals Clippings: Social History of Medicine, Vol 27, No 3, August 2014