When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality

by Alicia Ely Yamin

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503605418
• ISBN13: 9781503605411
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"