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Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 9-21  PDF Mireia Campanera, Mercè Gasull, and Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz Abstract Food insecurity can be understood as a manifestation of health inequality and thus a deprivation of the right to health. This paper explores the…

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 39-50  PDF Michele Friedner Abstract In 2014, the Indian state revised a key program providing aids and appliances to disabled people to also include cochlear implants for children living below the poverty line. The…

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…

Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 101-109 |  PDF Caroline Crawford Child marriage is a global challenge in need of greater attention. According to reports by UNICEF, 650 million girls and women alive today were married as children.[1] The global…

Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 59-70 |  PDF Caroline M. Parker, Oscar E. Miranda-Miller, and Carmen Albizu-García Abstract Laws facilitating the involuntary civil commitment (ICC) of people with substance use disorders vary considerably…

Rosa González and Tamil Kendall In May 2022, the President of Chile made a historic public apology to Francisca, a woman living with HIV who was sterilized without her consent. The apology came  20 years after Francisca’s forced sterilization…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 147-158 |  PDF Gideon Lasco and Lee Edson Yarcia Abstract The international consensus to end compulsory drug treatments and close forced rehabilitation facilities needs urgent transformation to country policies.…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 171-174 |  PDF Khalid Tinasti In Morocco, people incarcerated for drug offenses make up 69% of those in pretrial detention (22,587 out of a total of 32,732 people).[1] As of 2018, 25% of people incarcerated were…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 63-73  |  PDF L. Syd M Johnson Abstract Two problems are considered here. One relates to who has moral status, and the other relates to who has moral responsibility. The criteria for mattering morally…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 81-94  |  PDF Audrey R. Chapman and A. Karim Ahmed Abstract The global community is facing an existential crisis that threatens the web of life on this planet. Climate change, in addition to being a…