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Book Chapter | 2011

Power, suffering and courts: Reflections on promoting health rights through judicialization

Alicia Ely Yamin (2011)
in Alicia Ely Yamin and Siri Gloppen, eds.: Litigating health rights. Can courts bring more justice to health?. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press pp. 333-372
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Appears in:

Litigating health rights. Can courts bring more justice to health?
Yamin, Alicia Ely and Siri Gloppen, eds.

Also in this volume:

  • Introduction: Can litigation bring justice to health?
    Gloppen, Siri and Mindy Jane Roseman
  • Litigating health rights: Framing the analysis
    Gloppen, Siri
  • Colombia. Judicial protection of the right to health: An elusive promise?
    Yamin, Alicia Ely, Oscar Parra-Vera and Camila Gianella
  • Dialogic justice in the enforcement of social rights: Some initial arguments
    Gargarella, Roberto
  • Litigating the right to health: Are transnational actors backseat driving?
    Roseman, Mindy Jane and Siri Gloppen
  • Assessing the impact of health rights litigation: A comparative analysis of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India and South Africa
    Mæstad, Ottar, Lise Rakner, Octavio L. Motta Ferraz
  • Litigating for medicines: How can we assess impact on health outcomes?
    Norheim, Ole Frithjof and Siri Gloppen

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