Category: Volume 24, Number 2

Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 293-304 |  PDF Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Razzan Quran  Abstract This paper connects two seemingly distinct subjects—the right to health and children’s play in contexts of a militarized settler colony. Following Ignacio Martín-Baró’s articulation of a critical psychology “of the people,” we outline the spatial and psychosocial economies of childhood outdoor play as forms of social and political determinants of health and human rights.[1] We offer an…

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Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 281-292 |  PDF Ghada Majadli and Hadas Ziv Abstract In this paper, we seek to contextualize amputations sustained by Palestinians during the Great March of Return within a framework of settler-colonial ideology and practice. Utilizing case studies identified in our advocacy work at Physicians for Human Rights Israel, we evaluate the conditions in which these amputations occurred and their relationship to the politicized Palestinian body,…

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Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 265-279 |  PDF Nicolas Howard* and Emily Schneider* Abstract Despite Israel’s responsibility under international law to combat the spread of contagious diseases and epidemics in its occupied territories, Israeli officials have refused to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Through a critical discourse analysis of Israeli officials’ statements regarding Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, this paper explores how Israel evades…

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Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 255-263 |  PDF Raymond Rosenbloom and Rebecca Leff Abstract The development of robust emergency care systems as a critical platform for addressing the global burden of disease has been increasingly recognized by global health policy makers over the past decade. A human rights-based approach to securing the right to quality emergency care is also essential to respond to the structural and political determinants of poor…

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Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 237-254 |  PDF Benjamin Bouquet,* Rania Muhareb,* and Rhona Smith Abstract In this paper, we examine the social construction of race as a determinant of health inequities in Palestine. Race myths about Palestinians conform to the “logic of elimination” integral to settler colonialism, predicated on the dispossession and removal of the Indigenous people from the land. Racialized legal categorizations of Palestinians are deployed in strategies…

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Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 229-235 |  PDF Yara Asi,* Weeam Hammoudeh,* David Mills,* Osama Tanous,* and Bram Wispelwey* In health as in many disciplines, too often the perspectives and framings of the very populations in question are obscured in favor of staid and acceptable discourses born out of the Global North and its attendant neocolonial and settler-colonial logics. Indigenous scholars and practitioners across the globe have long been disregarded…

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Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 219-228 |  PDF Kaitlin Fajber Abstract This essay examines the extent to which COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) has been a successful mechanism for global COVID-19 vaccine equity as a component of the human right to health. First, I provide background on COVID-19 vaccine equity and COVAX as part of the Access to COVID-19 Tools ACT-Accelerator. Second, I situate access to COVID-19 vaccines within the…

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Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 205-209 |  PDF Rosalind Turkie Introduction Pharmaceutical companies have the power and the responsibility to help governments realize the human right to health for all, yet there are egregious examples—such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic—where companies have violated these responsibilities. The Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in the Netherlands, argues that it is time to hold drug companies accountable for their excessive pricing…

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