Perspectives on Health and Human Rights : A Reader

This anthology of articles collected by a cast of award-winning scholars in the field of public health illustrates that promoting and protecting human rights is fundamental to promoting and protecting health. New issues covered in this volume include: emerging technologies; family and health; responding to violence; and methods and strategies.

Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA, is Associate Professor on Health and Human Rights in the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Director of the Program on International Health and Human Rights at the Harvard-based François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.

Michael A. Grodin, M.D., is Co-Director of the Bioethics and Human Rights Program and Professor of Health Law, Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine and Psychiatry at the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine.

Stephen P. Marks is the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.

George J. Annas is the Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights at Boston University School of Public Health, and Professor in the Boston University School of Medicine and School of Law.