Health and human rights : a reader / edited by Jonathan M. Mann [and others].

New York : Routledge, 1999.

505 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Pt. I. Human rights and public health -- Ch. 1. Health and human rights -- Ch. 2. Human rights: an introduction -- Ch. 3. Public health: an introduction -- Pt. II. The impact of health policies and programs on human rights -- Ch. 4. The impact of health policies on human rights: AIDS and TB control -- Ch. 5. The public health--human rights dialogue -- Ch. 6. Toward the development of a human rights impact assessment for the formulation and evaluation of public health policies -- Pt. III. Health impacts resulting from violations of human rights

Ch. 7. From Solferino to Sarajevo -- Ch. 8. Ethnic cleansing and other lies: combining health and human rights in the search for truth and justice in the former Yugoslavia -- Ch. 9. Haiti 1991-1994: The International Civilian Mission's Medical Unit -- Ch. 10. Disabled persons and their right to equal treatment: allowing differentiation while ending discrimination -- Ch. 11. Rights violations in the Ecuadorian Amazon: the human rights consequences of oil development

Ch. 12. Censorship and manipulation of family planning information: an issue of human rights and women's health -- Pt. IV. Exploring the inextricable linkage between health and human rights -- Ch. 13. Socioeconomic status and health: the challenge of the gradient -- Ch. 14. Interrelationship between gender relations and the HIV/AIDS epidemic: some possible considerations for policies and programs -- Ch. 15. Human rights and AIDS: the future of the pandemic -- Ch. 16. Reflections on emerging frameworks and health and human rights

Ch. 17. Gender, health, and human rights -- Ch. 18. Health, human rights, and lesbian existence -- Pt. V. Medicine and human rights -- Ch. 19. The Nuremberg Doctors' Trial: (a) Opening statement of the prosecution -- (b) The judgement -- Ch. 20. Medicine and human rights: reflections on the fiftieth anniversary of the Doctors' Trial -- Ch. 21. Questing for Grails: duplicity, betrayal, and self-deception in postmodern medical research -- Ch. 22. Irreversible error: the power and prejudice of female genital mutilation -- Ch. 23. Research and informed consent in Africa--another look

Ch. 24. Human rights and maternal-fetal HIV transmission prevention trials in Africa -- Ch. 25. Human rights and human genetic variation research -- Pt. VI. How to proceed from concept to action -- Ch. 26. Common strategies for health and human rights: from theory to practice -- Ch. 27. The health professional as human rights promoter: ten years of Physicians for Human Rights (USA) -- Ch. 28. Medical humanitarianism and human rights: reflections on Doctors Without Borders and Doctors of the World -- Ch. 29. For our patients, not for profits: a call to action

Contents: Ch. 30. Medicine and public health, ethics and human rights

Includes bibliographic references and index