When Misfortune Becomes Injustice
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Alicia Ely Yamin
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When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades, with a focus on women's health and rights. 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.
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice reveals extraordinary progress in recognizing health-related claims as legal rights and understanding the policy implications of doing so over the last few decades. Yet Yamin challenges us to consider why these advances have failed to produce greater equality within and between nations, and how the human rights praxis must now urgently address threats to social and gender justice, in health and beyond.
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"From her vantage point as a closely involved advocate, Alicia Ely Yamin skillfully and insightfully critiques the evolving struggles to achieve health and social equality. A highly readable and compelling account of the prospects and pitfalls for promoting social justice in these troubled times."
Paul E. Farmer:
"In When Misfortune Becomes Injustice, Yamin draws on years of practical field experience to speak with unique authority among human rights scholars about the global and national dynamics that systematically produce poverty and health inequalities across the world."
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr:
"In this reflective work drawing on her journey as a scholar and activist for health and human rights, Yamin makes a compelling case for why the praxis of human rights—human rights for social change—must be rethought to meet the challenges of hyper-globalization in the twenty-first century."
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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INTRODUCTION. Allegorizing the World
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CHAPTER 1. Indignation and Injustice
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CHAPTER 2. The Significances of Suffering
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CHAPTER 3. Diverging Parables of Progress
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CHAPTER 4. Dystopian Modernization
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CHAPTER 5. Globalizing Crises, Pandemics, and Norms
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CHAPTER 6. Inequality, Democracy, and Health Rights
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CHAPTER 7. Power, Politics, and Knowledge
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CONCLUSIONS. Turning Toward the World We Want
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Notes
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Index
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