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

by Alicia Ely Yamin

Book Overview

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades. Alicia Ely 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, and challenges us to consider why these advances have failed to produce...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503635945
• ISBN13: 9781503635944
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"