Health and Human Rights: Basic International Documents (Harvard Series on Health and Human Rights) - Softcover

Marks, Stephen P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674018095 ISBN 13: 9780674018099

Publisher: FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health, 2005

Synopsis

This collection of texts provides the practitioner, scholar, and advocate with easy access to the most basic instruments of international law and policy that express the values of human rights for advancing health. It is the first in a series on health and human rights from the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. Topics include: professional ethics; research and experimentation; treatment of prisoners and detainees; patients' rights; right to health; right to life; freedom from torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide; the right to an adequate standard of living; women and reproductive health; children; persons with disabilities; rights of older persons; infectious diseases; business, trade, and intellectual property; occupational health and safety; biotechnology; and protection of the environment. This work will be an indispensable reference for students and professors in courses covering the intersection of health and human rights.

About this title

About the Author

Stephen P. Marks is François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights and Director of the Program on Human Rights in Development in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Edition details

• Publisher: FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674018095
• ISBN 13: 9780674018099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300