Health Justice, Equality and Fairness: Perspectives from Health Policy and Human Rights Law
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One has the strange impression of switching between parallel worlds when reading the main human rights and health policy works on the issues of health justice. Different contexts, intellectual traditions, conceptual frameworks and arguments, while running their own course, seem to be driven by similar fundamental concerns about what it is that a society ought to do regarding people’s health needs. Instead of crossing over from one discourse to the other, it is desirable to have the two “talk” to each other.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011