Assembling Health Rights in Global Context

Alex Mold is a Lecturer in History in the Centre for History and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.David Reubi is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

• Introduction David Reubi and Alex Mold Part 1: Rights, Citizenship and Subjectivities 1. Not Rights but Reciprocal Responsibility: the Rhetoric of State Health Provision in Early Twentieth Century Britain Jane Seymour 2. Unauthorised Immigrants and the Denial of the Right to Health Care in the United States Beatrix Hoffman 3. Rights, Responsibility, and Health Services: Human Rights as an Idiomatic Language of Power Jarrett Zigon Part 2: Making Health Rights 4. The Political Evolution of Health as a Human Right: Conceptualizing Public Health under International Law, 1940s-1990s Benjamin Meier 5. Health Right or Human Right? Changing Tides in the International Discussion of Female Genital Mutilation, 1970-2010 Marion Hulverscheidt 6. Constructing Tobacco Control as a Human Rights Issue: Smoking, Lawyers and the Judicialisation of the Right to Health David Reubi Part 3: Resistance, Contestation and Translation 7. From Isolation to ‘Living Together’: Human Rights in Japanese HIV/AIDS Discourse Hannah Waterson 8. Evidence-Based Advocacy and the Retreat From Rights in Safe Motherhood Discourse’ Katerini Storeng and Dominque Béhague 9. State of Exception, Culture of Medical Police: SARS, and the Law of No Rights in the People’s Republic of China Christos Lynteris