Title: When Misfortune Becomes Injustice
Description: "This book surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades, with a focus on women's health and rights.Yamin waves 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."--book cover
Subjects: Law, Right to health, History, Human rights, Health aspects, Health services accessibility, Law and legislation, Women's health services, Medical policy