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Book Title: Research Handbook on Global Health Law
Editor(s): Burci, Gian Luca; Toebes, Brigit
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781785366536
Section: Chapter 4
Section Title: Hardwired human rights: a health and human rights perspective on global health law
Author(s): Murphy, Thérèse
Number of pages: 22
Abstract/Description:
This chapter argues that Larry Gostin’s book Global Health Law needs to be taken seriously. It gives three reasons for this: first, the book has heroic appeal; second, it makes many legitimate criticisms of both law in general and international human rights law in particular; and third and most importantly, it is a mischief-maker. Specifically, it promotes a dated and damaging picture of economic and social rights, and it has both too narrow a sense of law and too much faith in governance as an essential supplement. In response, the chapter calls for a different state of mind, one that will hardwire human rights and human rights law.
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