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This collection of texts is updated and expanded from the first edition to provide the practitioner, scholar, and advocate with access to the most basic instruments of international law and policy that express the values of human rights for advancing health. The topics covered include professional ethics; research and experimentation; treatment of prisoners and detainees; patients' rights; right to health; right to life; freedom from torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide; the right to an adequate standard of living; women and reproductive health; children; persons with disabilities; rights of older persons; infectious diseases; business, trade, and intellectual property; occupational health and safety; biotechnology; and protection of the environment. This book will be an indispensable reference work.

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The volume very effectively and thoroughly pulls together a wide-ranging set of texts in one coherent, easily accessible source. Thus, this collection of primary legal materials on health and human rights should be a valuable resource for health professionals, scholars, and human rights advocates working in the fields of health and human rights. -- Debra DeLaet ""Human Rights & Human Welfare"" (01/01/2007)

The volume very effectively and thoroughly pulls together a wide-ranging set of texts in one coherent, easily accessible source. Thus, this collection of primary legal materials on health and human rights should be a valuable resource for health professionals, scholars, and human rights advocates working in the fields of health and human rights. -- Debra DeLaet Human Rights & Human Welfare (01/01/2007)

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Stephen P. Marks is the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the Human Rights in Development Program at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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