Assembling Health Rights in Global Context Genealogies and Anthropologies 1st Edition by Alex Mold, David Reubi 9780415530118 0415530113

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ISBN 10: 0415530113

ISBN 13: 9780415530118

Author: Alex Mold, David Reubi

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 global health. This book explores the historical, cultural and social context of public health activists’ increasing use of rights discourse and examines the problems it can entail in practice. Structured around three interlinked themes, this book begins by looking at what health as a right means for our understandings of citizenship and political subjectivities. It then goes on to look at how and why some health problems came to be framed as human rights issues. The final part of the book investigates what happens when health rights are put into practice – how these are implemented, realised, cited, ignored and resisted. Assembling Health Rights in Global Context provides an in-depth discussion of the historical, anthropological, social and political context of rights in health and develops much needed critical perspectives on the human rights approach to global health. It will be of interest to scholars of public health and human rights within health care as well as sociology and anthropology.

Table of contents:

Part I Rights, citizenships and subjectivities

1 Not rights but reciprocal responsibility The rhetoric of state health provision in early twentieth-century Britain

2 Unauthorized immigrants and the denial of the right to health care in the United States

3 Rights, responsibility and health services Human rights as an idiomatic language of power

Part II Making health rights

4 The political evolution of health as a human right Conceptualizing public health under international law, 1940s–1990s

5 Health right or human right? Changing tides in the international discussion of female genital mutilation, 1970–2010

6 Constructing tobacco control as a human rights issue Smoking, lawyers and the judicialization of the right to health

Part III Resistance, contestation and translation

7 From isolation to ‘living together’ Human rights in Japanese HIV/AIDS discourse

8 Evidence-based advocacy and the reconfiguration of rights language in safe motherhood discourse

9 State of exception, culture of medical police SARS and the law of no rights in the People’s Republic of China

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