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
greater equality within and between nations. In this revised and
expanded second edition, Yamin incorporates crucial lessons learned
about the state of global health equity and public health systems
during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating just how incompatible
the current institutionalized world order—based on neoliberal,
financialized capitalism—is with one in which the rights of
diverse people around the globe can be realized. COVID-19 struck a
world that had been shaped by decades of disinvestment in public
health, health systems, and social protection, as well as
privatization of wealth and gaping social inequalities within and
between countries, and the evident crisis of confidence in the
capacity of democratic political institutions and global governance
was deepened by the pandemic. Yamin argues that transformative
human rights praxis in health calls for addressing issues of
structural inequality and political economy, and working across
disciplinary silos through networks and social movements.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Stanford Studies in Human Rights |
| Release date: |
July 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Alicia Ely Yamin
|
| Foreword by: |
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
326 |
| Edition: |
2nd edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-3594-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5036-3594-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781503635944 |
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