Articles

"Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina Heyer examines three case studies--Germany, Japan, and the United Nations--to... 
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative | Political activity | Human rights | Sociology of disability | SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities | People with disabilities | Civil rights | Equality | Sociology | Political Science | POLITICAL SCIENCE | Comparative Politics | SOCIAL SCIENCE | Public Policy | Social Policy | People with Disabilities

This book moves beyond the artificial boundary between socio-economic and civil and political rights and instead focuses on the positive duties to which all... 
Justice, Administration of | Human rights | Judicial power | Due process of law | Equality before the law | Judges | Courts | human rights and immigration | Comparative law | Positive duties | Civil and political rights | Substantive equality | State | Democracy | Human rights transformed | Freedom | Socio-economic rights

Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches... 
Medical policy | Women's health services | Poor | Human Rights | World Health | Medical care | Moral and ethical aspects | Health services accessibility | Health aspects | Public health | Right to health | Women | Human rights | Political Science | Health Sciences | Health Policy | POLITICAL SCIENCE | MEDICAL

While the Obama administration's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health care coverage for millions of Americans, it has fallen... 
Health insurance | Government policy | United States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Health care reform | Right to health | Health Care Reform | Social Justice | Civil Rights | Social Security | United States | Sociology | Political Science

United States. Army | Women | Participation, African American | United States | United States. Army Nurse Corps | United States. Army Nurse Corps History | 1900 - 1999 | History | World War (1939-1945) | Discrimination in employment | World War, 1939-1945 | Military nursing | Armed Forces | Military participation | Nurses | Civil rights | Sex role in the work environment | United States. Army NursesHistory | Male nurses | African American women | African American

The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving health care provision and legal protection for women around the world. This... 
moral philosophy | Women | Ethics | Reproductive Health | Health Care Provision | Human Rights | Medical Law | Legal Protection

Hein and Moon take up a serious problem of contemporary global governance: what can be done when international trade rules prevent the realization of basic... 
Drugs | Prices | International cooperation | Foreign trade regulation | Patents (International law) | Public health | Right to health | Drug accessibility | Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties | Pharmaceutical Medicine | Comparative Politics | Global Governance | Medical & Healthcare Law | Developing countries

Health | Medical care | England | Social aspects | Germany | Social Medicine | Right to health

"HIV represents not only an unprecedented pandemic but also a site of civil society innovation. In the midst of devastation, activists in sub-Saharan Africa... 
Patient advocacy | HIV-positive persons | Africa South of the Sahara | Civil society | Social advocacy | Social aspects | Patients | HIV infections | Services for | Africa, Sub-Saharan | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome | AIDS (Disease) | Human Rights

"In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from... 
Medicare | United States | History, 20th Century | Civil Rights | Health care reform | Politics | Discrimination in medical care | history | Medicaid

Drugs | Patents | Human rights | Drug accessibility | Pharmaceutical policy | Intellectual property | Free trade | Right to health

Social work Codes of Ethics of professional organizations around the world appeal to the concept of people having 'rights' that social workers need to respect... 
Social Work | Human rights | Internationality | Social service | Professional ethics | Practice | Social workers | Vulnerable Populations | Moral and ethical aspects | Social Work and Social Policy | Social Justice | Community Social Work | Social Work Practice | Human Rights

"Luck egalitarianism"--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main... 
Social medicine | Philosophy | Medical policy | Equality | Social justice | Social aspects | Health services accessibility | Health aspects | Political Science | Health Sciences | PHILOSOPHY | Ethics & Moral Philosophy | POLITICAL SCIENCE | History & Theory

Homophobia | Homosexuality | Gay liberation movement | Gay rights | Social justice | Sexual rights

Minorities | African Americans | Medical care | Discrimination in medical care | Equality | History | Health aspects

Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the... 
Sociology of disability | People with disabilities | Disability studies | Sociology, Social Studies | Disability | Disability Studies - Sociology | Social Work and Disability

International law | Torture

Medical jurisprudence | Periodicals