Perspectives
The Perspectives section provides space for contributors to share
information and express their views on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to the themes of the journal’s issues. “Perspectives” texts are generally short and need not include scholarly references. Views expressed in the following pieces are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Health and Human Rights editors.
Texts for potential inclusion in “Perspectives” should be submitted to the editors. Please refer to these guidelines in preparing your submission.
October 2016
Terminal Patients and the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment in Argentina
Martín Hevia and Daniela Schnidrig
Book Review: Advancing Global Health and Human Rights in this Neoliberal Era
Gillian MacNaughton
September 2016
Book review: Rethinking Health and Human Rights through Emancipatory Frameworks around Dignity and Well-being
Beatriz Galli
August 2016
Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium Student Essay Competition:
Human Rights, Law and Abortion in El Salvador
Alia Januwalla
Lessons from Jonathan Mann: The Ten Commandments on Multidrug Resistant TB
Michael Kirby
January 2016
Medical Hostages: Detention of Women and Babies in Hospitals
Delan Devakumar and Rob Yates
December 2015
Extending the Right to Health to the Moment of Death: End of Life Care and the Right to Palliation in Rwanda
Agnes Binagwaho, Sardis H. Harward, Theophile Dushime, Jean de Dieu Ngirabega, Parfait Uwaliraye, Cathy Mugeni, Kirstin W. Scott, Marie Aimee Muhimpundu, Jean Pierre Nyemazi
November 2015
Student Leadership in the Creation and Operation of an Asylum
Eleanor Emery, Carmen Stellar, Krista Dubin, Taryn Clark, Aynsley Duncan, Alejandro Lopez, Joanne Ahola, Terri Edersheim, and Nicole Sirotin
Making Medicines Accessible: Alternatives to the Flawed Patent System
Fran Quigley
Universal Healthcare? (Un)documented Migrants in Southeast Asia
CHAN Chee Khoon
October 2015
SDG SERIES: Full list of titles
September 2015
SDG SERIES: SDGs and the Importance of Formal Independent Review: An Opportunity for Health to Lead the Way
Paul Hunt
August 2015
The Right to Health in Indigenous Guatemala: Prevailing Historical Structures in the Context of Health Care
Alexander M. Lawton
Accelerating Progress in Tobacco Control: The Example of Tobacco Litigation in India and South Africa
Diya Uberoi
A Narrow Escape in Nepal: Reflections on Disaster Responses and Better Futures
Buddha Basnyat
July 2015
Physicians Trained to Work with Torture Survivors can add Critical Expertise in Jails
Ross MacDonald, Zachary Rosner, Homer Venters
Letter to the Editor and Author Response: Solitary Confinement and Mental Illness
Thomas Blair, Keramet Reiter; Sarah Glowa-Kollisch et al.
June 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Access to Medicines
Fran Quigley
April 2015
Improving International Accountability – A Tool for Protecting Health As a Basic Human Right
Agnès Binagwaho, Richard Freeman, Kirstin Scott, Anne Badrichani, Sardis Harward, Monique Mulindahabi, Corine Karema
October 2014
Sex Work and Trafficking: Can Human Rights Lead Us Out of the Impasse?
Tripti Tandon, Gabriel Armas-Cardona, Anand Grover
September 2014
Health Litigation in Colombia: Have We Reached the Limit for the Judicialization of Health?
Daniel Alzate Mora
Navigating the Access to Information Challenge in Health Rights Litigation in Uganda
Namusobya Salima
Law, Human Rights, and Health Databases: A Roundtable Discussion
Joseph Amon
July 2014
Litigation for Claiming Health Rights: Insights From Tobacco Control
Upendra Bhojani, Pragati Hebbar, Vishal Rao, Vandana Shah
June 2014
In Their Court: Litigation Against the United Nations as a Last Resort for Haitian Cholera Victims
Adam Houston
May 2014
The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Adherence to Human Rights Alone Is Inadequate
Saroj Jayasinghe
January 2014
The New Accountability for Doctors Who Torture
Steven H. Miles
December 2013
Cost of Indulgence: Rise in Violence and Suicides Among LGBT Youth in Russia
Oleg Kucheryavenko, Kirill Guskov, Michael Walker
November 2013
Letter to the Editor: Traditional/Alternative Medicines and the Right to Health
Ibrahim Garba and Nicolas Bakinde
August 2013
Access to HIV Prevention in Rwandan Prisons
Agnes Binagwaho
June 2013
Human Rights Provide Justification for the Health in All Policies Approach
Benjamin Mason Meier, Paul Henry Brodish, Meri Koivusalo
December 2012
Approaches to the Development of Human Rights Indicators for Women’s Health
Pamela J. Surkan, Luke C. Mullany, Namrita S. Singh, Chris Beyrer
April 2011
The Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health: Establishing international processes for state reporting to an independent monitoring body
Benjamin Mason Meier and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
August 2010
La participación social en un contexto de violencia política: Implicaciones para la promoción y ejercicio del derecho a la salud en Guatemala
Walter Flores, Ana Lorena Ruano, y Denise Phé Funchal
April 2010
Massachusetts health care reform
Beth Waldman
October 2009
Limitations on human rights in the context of drug-resistant tuberculosis: A reply to Boggio et al.
Joseph J. Amon, Françoise Girard, and Salmaan Keshavjee
August 2009
¿Deliberación democrática o mercadeo social? Los dilemas de la definición pública en salud en el contexto del seguimiento de la Sentencia
Camila Gianella-Malca, Oscar Parra-Vera, Alicia Ely Yamin, y Mauricio Torres-Tovar
April 2009
Holding multilateral organizations accountable: The failure of WHO in regards to childhood malnutrition
Agnès Binagwaho, Niloo Ratnayake, Mary C. Smith Fawzi