Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 49-58 | PDF Lowri Davies Abstract Access to medicines and the right to health continues to be widely discussed in academic literature. United Nations human rights bodies have done much work to elaborate on the normative content of the right to health and the obligations of states to uphold this right, although translating this into tangible benefits to the public at national level remains a…
PERSPECTIVE State Accountability for the Good Health of Palestinians Has Failed: What Can the Global Health Community Do Next?
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 77-84 | PDF Mohammed Alkhaldi, Rachel Coghlan, Simon Miller, Aisha al Basuoni, Osama Tanous, and Yara M. Asi Introduction In early June 2021, Scientific American published a statement by health care workers, calling on health care systems, academic institutions, and health care professionals in the United States to “unequivocally condemn Israel’s long-standing oppression of the Palestinian people” and the ongoing decimation of their health.1 Similar…
BOOK REVIEW: How to Resuscitate an Ailing Norm
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 125-127 | PDF Abby Stoddard Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War, by Leonard Rubenstein (Columbia University Press, 2021) In the mid-19th century, a brief and little-known contretemps transpired between two icons of humanity and public health: Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross and progenitor of the Geneva Conventions, and Florence Nightingale, military nursing innovator and statistician. While…
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