Book Brief: The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide

The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide Colleen M. Flood and Aeyal Gross Cambridge University Press, 2014 ISBN 9781107038301 492 pages $120 By Health and Human Rights communications assistant Gabrielle Tyson Published April 7, 2015  The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide broaches a subject central to the current American and global political debate: the right to health care. Flood and Gross put together a comparative study of 16…

Times Review: Lawrence Gostin’s “Global Health Law”

HHR contributor Juliet Sorensen reviews Lawrence O. Gostin’s Global Health Law in today’s Times Higher Education. Gostin is on the steering committee for the recently launched Framework Convention on Global Health, and is an HHR board member. In her review, Sorensen writes that Gostin “exhorts individual nations and the international community to apply meaningful governance standards to global health even as the right to health continues to evolve and gain acceptance.” She notes…