Volume 16, Number 2

Brett Dignam and Eli Y. Adashi Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Abstract Rationalized for decades on security grounds, perinatal shackling entails the application of handcuffs, leg irons, and/or waist shackles to the incarcerated woman prior…

Ana Paula de Barcellos Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 Abstract Public law litigation has been used in many places to advance human rights related to health. In Brazil, such lawsuits usually request that the government pay for pharmaceuticals…

Promoting Equity in Health: What Role for Courts? Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH, Guest Editor Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 I am particularly delighted to introduce this special issue on health rights litigation on the 20th anniversary of the…

Giulia Tamayo, 1958-2014 Alicia Ely Yamin Health and Human Rights 2014, 16/2 This issue of Health and Human Rights is dedicated to the memory of Giulia Tamayo. In the course of preparing this special issue for publication, the world lost a…