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The right to health in international law / John Tobin.
LIBRA K3260.3 .T63 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tobin, John (John William), 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Right to health.
- Human rights--Health aspects.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 416 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Charting the history of the right to health
- The right to health : its conceptual foundations
- A methodology to produce a meaning for the right to health
- The meaning of the highest attainable standard of health
- The obligation to recognize the right to health by all appropriate means
- The progressive obligation to realize the right to health
- Specific measures required to secure the right to health
- The obligation to abolish traditional practices harmful to health
- The international obligation to secure the right to health
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-402) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780199603299
- 0199603294
- OCLC:
- 714724971
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