Health and human rights : basic international documents / edited by Stephen P. Marks. - 2nd ed. - xiii, 392 p. ; 22 cm. - Harvard series on health and human rights . - Harvard series on health and human rights. .

Previous ed. published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references.

Basic texts in human rights -- Basic texts in bioethics -- Basic texts on the right to health -- Protection of life and physical integrity -- Health aspects of the right to an adequate standard of living (other than the right to health) -- Health and human rights of vulnerable populations -- Human rights aspects of health policy -- Protection of the environment. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

"This collection of basic texts on health and human rights is designed to provide the practitioner, scholar, and advocate with easy access to key instruments of international law and policy that express the values of human rights for advancing health. This is a revised and expanded second edition of the edition published in 2004 as the first in a Series on Health and Human Rights produced by the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and distributed by Harvard University Press."--BOOK JACKET.

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Health--Social aspects
Human rights--Health aspects
Medical policy--Social aspects
Right to health
Public health laws, International
Legislation, Medical
Health Policy--legislation & jurisprudence
Health Services Accessibility--legislation & jurisprudence
Human Rights--legislation & jurisprudence

RA418 / .H3872 2006

341.48

2006 O-087 W 32.1 / H434 2006