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Journals & Collections

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  • Medicine, Conflict &Survival
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  • British Medical Journal (BMJ) - human rights collection
  • Lancet - health and human rights

Books & Texts

  • Steiner H, Alston P. International human rights in context. Oxford University Press 2000, New York, NY.
  • Mann J, Gruskin S, Grodin M, Annas G (eds). Health and human rights. Routledge 1999, New York, NY.
  • Farmer P. Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor. University of California Press 2003, Berkeley, CA.
  • Farmer P. Infections and inequalities: the modern plagues. University of California Press 1999, Berkeley, CA.
  • Farmer P, Connors M, Simmons J. Women, poverty, and AIDS: sex, drugs, and structural violence. Common Courage Press 1996, Monroe, ME.
  • Kim JY, Millen JV, Irwin A, Gershman J. Dying For Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor. Common Courage Press 2000, Monroe, ME.
  • Werner D. Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival. Healthwrights 1997, Palo Alto, CA.
  • British Medic al Association. The medical profession & Human rights: handbook for a changing agenda. London: Zed Books (in association with the BMA), 2001.
  • Baldwin L, de Gruchy J, London L, eds. An ambulance of the wrong colour: health professionals, human rights and ethics in South Africa. Cape Town: UCT Press, 1999.
  • European Network of Scientific Co-operation on Medicine and Human Rights. The human rights, ethical and moral dimensions of health care: 120 practical case studies. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 1998.
  • Waldron J ed. Theories of rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Rawls J. A theory of justice (revised edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Sen A. Inequality re-examined. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

ARTICLES

Overlapping fields of health & human rights (HR)

i. General

  • Marks S. The evolving field of health and human rights: issues and methods. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2002; 30:739-754
  • Burris S. Introduction: Merging law, human rights, and social epidemiology. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Boston: Winter 2002. Vol. 30, Iss. 4; p. 498
  • Mann J. Health and human rights: broadening the agenda for health professionals. Health Hum Rights. 1996;2(1):1-5.
  • Alleyne GA. Health and Human Rights: The Equity Issue. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(3):65-70.
  • MacDowell EG. Juridical action for the protection of collective rights and its legal impact: A case study. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Boston: Winter 2002. Vol. 30, Iss. 4; p. 644
  • Farmer P. Rethinking health and human rights: Time for a paradigm shift. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Boston: Winter 2002. Vol. 30, Iss. 4; p. 655
  • Watchirs H. Review of methodologies measuring human rights implementation. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Boston: Winter 2002. Vol. 30, Iss. 4; p. 716
  • Marks SP. The evolving field of health and human rights: Issues and methods. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Boston: Winter 2002. Vol. 30, Iss. 4; p. 739
  • Burris S, Lazzarini Z, Gostin O. Taking rights seriously in health. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Boston: Winter 2002. Vol. 30, Iss. 4; p. 490
  • Heymann SJ, Sell RL. Mandatory public health programs: to what standards should they be held? Health Hum Rights. 1999;4(1):193-203.
  • Welsh J. Freedom of Expression and the Healthy Society. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(2):66-80.
  • Marks SP. Common Strategies for Health and Human Rights: From Theory to Practice. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(3):95-104.
  • Freedman LP. Reflections on emerging frameworks of health and human rights. Health Hum Rights. 1995;1(4):314-48.
  • Gostin L, Mann JM. Towards the development of a human rights impact assessment for the formulation and evaluation of public health policies. Health Hum Rights. 1994 Fall;1(1):58-80.
  • Leaning J. Health and human rights: the BMA's latest handbook on human rights challenges us all. BMJ 2001; 322: 1435-6.

ii. War, violence & torture

  • Horton R. Violence and medicine: the necessary politics of public health. Lancet 2001; 358:1472-1473
  • Boyce W, Koros M, Hodgson J. Community based rehabilitation: a strategy for peace-building. BMC International health and human rights 2002; 2(6).
  • Keough ME, Kahn S, Andrejevic A. Disclosing the truth: informed participation in the Antemortem Database Project for Survivors of Srebrenica. Health Hum Rights. 2000;5(1):68-87.
  • Sidel VW. The Right to a Just and Peaceful Social and International Order. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(2):110-125.
  • Fein H. Genocide by Attrition 1939-1993: The Warsaw Ghetto, Cambodia, and Sudan. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(2):10-45.
  • Geiger HJ. Inequity as Violence: Race, Health and Human Rights in the United States. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(3):7-13.
  • Winston M. The Prevention of Institutionalized Intergroup Violence. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(3):15-25.
  • Maddocks I. Evolution of the physicians' peace movement: a historical perspective. Health Hum Rights. 1996;2(1):89-109.
  • Yamin AE. Ethnic Cleansing and Other Lies: Combining Health and Human Rights in the Search for Truth and Justice in the Former Yugoslavia. Health Hum Rights. 1996;2(1):58-87.
  • Leary VA. The right to health in international human rights law. Health Hum Rights. 1994 Fall;1(1):24-56.
  • Mann JM, Gostin L, Gruskin S, Brennan T, Lazzarini Z, Fineberg HV. Health and human rights. Health Hum Rights. 1994 Fall;1(1):6-23.
  • Anonymous. Health-care ethics in Zimbabwe. Lancet 2002; 359: 791-2.

iii. HIV/AIDS pandemic

  • Herek GM. Thinking about AIDS and stigma: A psychologist's perspective. The Journal of Law, Medicine &Ethics. Boston: Winter 2002. Vol. 30, Iss. 4; p. 594
  • Tarantola D. The shifting HIV/AIDS paradigm: twenty years and counting. Health Hum Rights. 2000;5(1):1-6.
  • Heywood M, Altman D. Confronting AIDS: human rights, law and social transformation. Health Hum Rights. 2000;5(1):149-79.
  • Cameron E. The deafening silence of AIDS. Health Hum Rights. 2000;5(1):7-24.
  • Altman D. HIV, homophobia, and human rights. Health Hum Rights. 1998;2(4):15-22.
  • Gruskin S, Mann J, Tarantola D. Past, present, and future: AIDS and human rights. Health Hum Rights. 1998;2(4):1-3.
  • Piot P, Timberlake S. HIV/AIDS and human rights: continued commitment in the second decade. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(1):1-6.
  • Mann JM. AIDS and human rights: where do we go from here? Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(1):143-9.
  • Gruskin S. The highest priority: making use of UN conference documents to remind governments of their commitments to HIV/AIDS. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(1):107-42.
  • Beloqui J, Chokevivat V, Collins C. HIV vaccine research and human rights: examples from three countries planning efficacy trials. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(1):38-58.
  • Beyrer C. Burma and Cambodia: Human Rights, Social Disruption, and the Spread of HIV/AIDS. Health Hum Rights. 1998;2(4):84-97.
  • Heywood M, Cornell M. Human rights and AIDS in South Africa: from right margin to left margin. Health Hum Rights. 1998;2(4):60-82.
  • Wodak A. Health, HIV infection, human rights, and injecting drug use. Health Hum Rights. 1998;2(4):24-41.

iv. Children's rights

  • Rosenthal E, Bauer E, Hayden MF, Holley A. Implementing the right to community integration for children with disabilities in Russia: a human rights framework for international action. Health Hum Rights. 1999;4(1):82-113.
  • Tarantola D, Gruskin S. Children confronting HIV/AIDS: charting the confluence of rights and health. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(1):60-86.
  • Timberlake S. UNAIDS: human rights, ethics, and law. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(1):87-106.
  • Iacopino V V, Rasekh Z. Education, a Health Imperative: The Case of Afghanistan. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(2):98-108.
  • Lewis S. Promoting Child Health and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(3):77-82.

v. Women's rights, reproductive rights & sexual rights

  • Bianco M. Women's Human Rights and Health in Developing Countries. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(3):83-89.
  • Moore K, Randolph K, Toubia N, Kirberger E. The synergistic relationship between health and human rights: a case study using female genital mutilation. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(2):137-46.
  • Gulcur L. Evaluating the role of gender inequalities and rights violations in women's mental health. Health Hum Rights. 2000;5(1):46-66.
  • Sadik N. Progress in protecting reproductive rights and promoting reproductive health: five years since Cairo. Health Hum Rights. 2000;4(2):7-15.
  • Petchesky RP. Rights and needs: rethinking the connections in debates over reproductive and sexual rights. Health Hum Rights. 2000;4(2):17-29.
  • Turmen T. Reproductive rights: how to move forward? Health Hum Rights. 2000;4(2):31-6.
  • Shalev C. Rights to sexual and reproductive health: the ICPD and the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. Health Hum Rights. 2000;4(2):38-66.
  • Miller AM. Sexual but not reproductive: exploring the junction and disjunction of sexual and reproductive rights. Health Hum Rights. 2000;4(2):68-109.
  • Abeysekera S. Activism for Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Progress and Challenges. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(3):39-43.
  • Sandor J. Reproductive rights in Hungarian law: a new right to assisted procreation? Health Hum Rights. 2000;4(2):196-218.
  • Shepard B. The "double discourse" on sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America: the chasm between public policy and private actions. Health Hum Rights. 2000;4(2):110-43.
  • Misra G, Mahal A, Shah R. Protecting the rights of sex workers: the Indian experience. Health Hum Rights. 2000;5(1):88-115.
  • Klugman B. Sexual rights in southern Africa: a Beijing discourse or a strategic necessity? Health Hum Rights. 2000;4(2):144-73.
  • Fried MG. Abortion in the United States: barriers to access. Health Hum Rights. 2000;4(2):174-94.
  • Dean B, Valdeavellano EE, McKinley M, Saul R. The Amazonian Peoples' Resources Initiative: promoting reproductive rights and community development in the Peruvian Amazon. Health Hum Rights. 2000;4(2):219-26.
  • Snow R. Operationalizing Cairo and Beijing: a training initiative in gender and reproductive health. The International Coordinating Committee. Health Hum Rights. 2000;4(2):227-34.
  • Niveau G, Ummel M, Harding T. Human rights aspects of transsexualism. Health Hum Rights. 1999;4(1):134-64.
  • Whelan D. Human rights approaches to an expanded response to address women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(1):20-36.
  • Gupta GR. Strengthening Alliances for Sexual Health and Rights. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(3):55-63.
  • Parker RG. Sexual Rights: Concepts and Action. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(3):31-37.
  • Cook RJ. Gender, health, and human rights. Health Hum Rights. 1995;1(4):350-66.
  • Sullivan DJ. The nature and scope of human rights obligations concerning women's right to health. Health Hum Rights. 1995;1(4):368-98.
  • Rahman A, Pine RN. An international human right to reproductive health care: toward definition and accountability. Health Hum Rights. 1995;1(4):400-27.
  • Miller AM, Rosga A, Satterthwaite M. Health, Human Rights and Lesbian Existence. Health Hum Rights. 1995;1(4):428-448.
  • Gruskin S, Studdert D. A Selected Bibliography of Women's Health and Human Rights. Health Hum Rights. 1995;1(4):477-497.

vi. Economics & human rights

  • Wagstaff A. Economics, health and development: some ethical dilemmas facing the World Bank and the international community. Journal of Medical Ethics 2001; 27:262-267
  • Jha P et al. Improving the health of the global poor. Science 2002; 295:2036-2039
  • Feachem R. Globalisation is good for your health, mostly. British Journal of Medicine 2001; 323:504-506
  • Heggenhougen K. Are the marginalized the slag-heap of globalization? Disparity, health, and human rights. Health Hum Rights. 1999;4(1):205-13.
  • Logie D, Rowson M. Poverty and Health: Debt Relief Could Help Achieve Human Rights Objectives. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(2):82-97.
  • Braveman P, Gruskin S. Poverty, equity, human rights and health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2003 (July); 81:439-45.
  • Jochnick C. The human rights challenge to global poverty. http://www.cesr.org/text%20files/actors.pdf

vii. Access to drugs & health care

  • Tan D, Upshur R, Ford N. Global plagues and the Global Fund: challenges in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria. BMC International health and human rights 2003; 3(2).
  • Loff B, Heywood M. Patents on drugs: Manufacturing scarcity or advancing health? The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Boston: Winter 2002. Vol. 30, Iss. 4; p. 621
  • Danis M, Sepinwall A. Regulation of the global marketplace for the sake of health. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Boston: Winter 2002. Vol. 30, Iss. 4; p. 667
  • Ngwena C. The recognition of access to health care as a human right in South Africa: is it enough? Health Hum Rights. 2000;5(1):26-44.
  • Yamin AE. Protecting and promoting the right to health in Latin America: selected experiences from the field. Health Hum Rights. 2000;5(1):116-48.
  • Hendriks A. Disabled Persons and their Right to Equal Treatment: Allowing Differentiation While Ending Discrimination. Health Hum Rights. 1995;1(2):152-173.

viii. Research & human rights

  • Attaran A. Human rights and biomedical research funding for the developing world: covering state obligations under the right to health. Health Hum Rights. 1999;4(1):26-58.

ix. Environment & human rights

  • Maantay J. Zoning law, health, and environmental justice: What's the connection? The Journal of Law, Medicine &Ethics. Boston: Winter 2002. Vol. 30, Iss. 4; p. 572
  • Iles AT. Health and the Environment: A Human Rights Agenda for the Future. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(2):46-61.
  • Dolan CG, Tollman SM, Nkuna VG, Gear JS. The Links between Legal Status and Environmental Health: A Case Study of Mozambican Refugees and Their Hosts in the Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) Lowveld, South Africa. Health Hum Rights. 1997;2(2):62-84.
  • Kanaaneh H, McKay F, Sims E. A Human Rights Approach for Access to Clean Drinking Water: A Case Study. Health Hum Rights. 1995;1(2):190-204.

x. Genomics & human rights

  • Benatar S. Human rights in the biotechnology era I. BMC International health and human rights 2002; 2(3)

xi. Education

  • Shinn C. The right to the highest attainable standard of health: public health's opportunity to reframe a human rights debate in the United States. Health Hum Rights. 1999;4(1):114-33.
  • Hannibal K, Lawrence RS. The Health Professional as Human Rights Promoter: Ten Years of Physicians for Human Rights (USA). Health Hum Rights. 1996;2(1):110-127.
  • Brenner J. Human Rights Education in Public Health Graduate Schools: 1996 Survey. Health Hum Rights. 1996;2(1):129-139.
  • Mann J. Human rights and the new public health. Health Hum Rights. 1995;1(3):229-33.

xii. History

  • Kirby M. The right to health fifty years on: still skeptical? Health Hum Rights. 1999;4(1):6-25.
  • Annas GJ, Grodin MA. Reflections on the fiftieth anniversary of the Doctors' Trial. Health Hum Rights. 1996;2(1):7-21.
  • Robinson M. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Hope and History. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(2):27-29.
  • Claude RP, Issel BW. Health, Medicine and Science in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(2):127-142.
  • Mann J. Dignity and Health: The UDHR's Revolutionary First Article. Health Hum Rights. 1998;3(2):30-38.
  • Aeberhard P. A Historical Survey of Humanitarian Action. Health Hum Rights. 1996;2(1):30-44.
  • Vincent A. The "French Doctors' Movement" And Beyond (An Introductory Editorial). Health Hum Rights. 1996;2(1):25-29.

Miscellaneous

  • Elahi M, Kushner A. Doctors with "dirty hands". Washington Post 2003 Aug 6 ; B7
  • Farmer P. A visit to Chiapas. America 1998; 14-18
  • Levy MH, Reyes H, Coninx R. Overwhelming consumption in prisons: human rights and tuberculosis control. Health Hum Rights. 1999;4(1):166-91.
  • Gray G. The center for justice and accountability. Health Hum Rights. 1999;4(1):277-83.
  • Witzig R, Ascencios M. The road to indigenous extinction: case study of resource exportation, disease importation, and human rights violations against the Urarina in the Peruvian Amazon. Health Hum Rights. 1999;4(1):60-81.
  • Fluss SS. A select bibliography on health aspects of human rights: 1984-1999. Health Hum Rights. 1999;4(1):265-76.
  • Vincent A. A Selected Bibliography on Current Issues in Humanitarian Action. Health Hum Rights. 1996;2(1):151-157.
  • Bernier L. A Selected Bibliography of Human Rights and the Right to Health. Health Hum Rights. 1994;1(1):110-120.
   
   
 
 
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