To heal humankind : the right to health in history /

"The "human right to healthcare" has had a remarkable rise. It is found in numerous international treaties and national constitutions, it is litigated in courtrooms across the globe, it is increasingly the subject of study by scholars across a range of disciplines, and--perhaps most i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaffney, Adam
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2018.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Health, rights, and welfare : antiquity to the early modern era
  • Enlightenment and revolution : the rights and the health of man
  • Public health, social medicine, and industrial capitalism
  • Blood and iron and health insurance : towards the modern era
  • The rhetoric and reality of health rights in depression and war
  • Postwar : health and death in the Cold War
  • The right to health in the age of neoliberalism.