Global Prescriptions
Subtitle: Gendering Health and Human Rights
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781842770047
Subjects: Health systems & services; Human rights; Public health & preventive medicine; Women's studies; Social Science; Politics/International Relations; Health and hygiene; Political Science; Medical / Nursing; Women's rights; Women's health services; Public Policy - General; Gender Studies; Health Care Delivery; Medical / Health Care Delivery; Political Science : Public Policy - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science : Gender Studies; Cross-cultural studies; Women
Description: "The book reviews a decade of women's participation in UN conference, transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and sexual and reproductive health provision, assessing both their strengths and weaknesses. It contains trenchant critiques of the Cairo, Beijing and Copenhagen conference documents and of World Bank, WHO and health sector reform policies. It also offers case studies of national-level reform and advocacy efforts and appraises the controversy concerning TRIPs, trade, and essential AIDS drugs. That controversy, Petchesky argues, starkly illuminates the 'collision course' of transnational corporate and global trade agendas with the struggle for gender, racial and regional equity and the human right to health."--Jacket.