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Volume 353:2826 December 29, 2005 Number 26
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Perspectives on Health and Human Rights

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Edited by Sofia Gruskin, Michael A. Grodin, George J. Annas, and Stephen P. Marks. 649 pp. New York, Routledge, 2005. $34.95. ISBN 0-415-94807-X.

During the past decade, a growing body of interdisciplinary academic literature has explored the relationship between health and human rights. Not surprisingly, much of that scholarship has focused on either the health implications of human rights violations or the effect of health policies and programs on human rights. Another dominant theme is the synergy between health and human rights. Contributors have sought to substantiate the hypothesis of the late Jonathan Mann that the promotion and protection of health and human rights are "inextricably linked." A selection of articles in this new field was reprinted in Health and Human Rights: A . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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