Health and Human Rights

Thérèse Murphy is Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham.

• Introduction 1. Health and Human Rights 2. Is Human Rights Prepared? 3. The Cost of Human Rights 4. A Measured Response 5. The Dignity of Choice Conclusion

The main strength of the book lies in the original approach taken to examining the diversity of health topics, the underlying themes that run throughout the book, and the overall central argument for an examination and consciousness regarding human rights legal method... this book will be of interest to human rights legal scholars and practitioners, health and medical lawyers, and also to those working on human rights methods more widely... With its refreshingly honest style of writing Health and Human Rights is scholarly, innovative and original, as well as interesting. Murphy's book encourages the human rights scholar to 'think both widely and deeply about health and human rights challenges' ( p. 19), and I recommend it as essential reading for anyone concerned with health and/or human rights.