Challenging orthodoxies: The road ahead for health and human rights
Authors/Editors: Paul Farmer
Publisher/Journal:Health and Human Rights
Publication date: 2008
Language: English, Spanish
Number of pages: 16
Overview
“….Health and Human Rights [includes] two synergistic sections. The first, entitled “Critical Concepts,” [examines] the conceptual foundations of a human rights approach to health through rigorous scholarship. The second, “Health and Human Rights in Practice,” provides a forum to analyze challenges and solutions in implementing rights-based approaches to health. These two rubrics will resist the traditional dichotomy between theory and practice, seeking instead to foster engaged scholarship and reflective activism. In doing so, they will open directions for informed action by and with communities to realize the full spectrum of human rights….”