When misfortune becomes injustice : evolving human rights struggles for health and social equality / Alicia Ely Yamin and Sakiko Fukuda-Parr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yamin, Alicia Ely, author.

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in human rights.

Stanford Studies in Human Rights Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades. Alicia Ely Yamin weaves together theory and firsthand experience in a compelling narrative of how evolving legal norms, empirical knowledge, and development paradigms have interacted in the realization of health rights, and challenges us to consider why these advances have failed to produce greater equality within and between nations. In this revised and expanded second edition, Yamin incorporates crucial lessons learned about the state of global health equity and public health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating just how incompatible the current institutionalized world order--based on neoliberal, financialized capitalism--is with one in which the rights of diverse people around the globe can be realized. COVID-19 struck a world that had been shaped by decades of disinvestment in public health, health systems, and social protection, as well as privatization of wealth and gaping social inequalities within and between countries, and the evident crisis of confidence in the capacity of democratic political institutions and global governance was deepened by the pandemic. Yamin argues that transformative human rights praxis in health calls for addressing issues of structural inequality and political economy, and working across disciplinary silos through networks and social movements"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Acknowledgments

Preface to the Second Edition

List of Acronyms

Introduction: Allegorizing the World

1 Indignation and Injustice

2 The Significances of Suffering

3 Diverging Parables of Progress

4 Dystopian Modernization

5 Globalizing Crises, Pandemics, and Norms

6 Inequality, Democracy, and Health Rights

7 Power, Politics, and Knowledge

Conclusions: The Struggle for the World We Want

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Yamin, Alicia Ely When Misfortune Becomes Injustice

ISBN:

9781503635951

1503635953

OCLC:

1376931700