Global prescriptions : gendering health and human rights / Rosalind Pollack Petchesky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petchesky, Rosalind P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene--Cross-cultural studies.

Women.

Women--Health and hygiene.

Globalization--Health aspects.

Women's health services.

Women's health services--Cross-cultural studies.

Women's rights--Cross-cultural studies.

Women's rights.

Human rights--Cross-cultural studies.

Human rights.

Globalization--Health aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Globalization.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books in association with United Nations Research Institute for Social Development ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2003.

Summary:

This is a critical yet optimistic analysis of the role of transnational women's groups in setting the agendas for women's health in international and national settings. The book reviews a decade of women's participation in UN conferences, transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and sexual and reproductive health provision, assessing both their strengths and weaknesses. It critiques the Cairo, Beijing and Copenhagen conference documents and World Bank, WHO and health sector reform policies. It also offers case studies of national-level reform and advocacy efforts and appraises the controversy concerning TRIPS, trade, and essential AIDS drugs. That controversy, Petchesky argues, starkly illuminates the "collision course" of transnational corporate and global trade agendas with the struggle for gender, racial and regional equity and the human right to health.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index.

ISBN:

1842770047

1842770071

OCLC:

50920757