Lawrence O Gostin, Zita Lazzarini

Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The volume critically examines such issues as HIV testing, screening, partner notification, isolation, quarantine, and criminalization of persons with HIV/AIDS, all within the framework of international human rights law. The authors evaluate the public health effects of a wide range of AIDS policies in developed as well as developing countries. The role of women in society receives special emphasis. Finally, the book presents three case histories that are important in the HIV/AIDS pandemic: discrimination and the transmission of HIV and tuberculosis in an occupational health care setting; breast feeding in the least developed countries; and confidentiality and the right of sexual partners to know of potential exposure to HIV. The cases challenge readers with some of the complex questions facing policy-makers, scientists, and public health professionals, and exemplify a method for analysing these problems from a human rights perspective. Gostin and Lazzarini have written a book that will be a valuable addition to the libraries of public health teachers and practitioners, legal scholars, bioethicists, policy makers, and public rights activists.

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Historically, the fields of public health and human rights have remained largely separate. The AIDS pandemic, however, made it clear that a complex relationship exists between the two fields.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780195114423
• ISBN-10: 0195114426
• Artikelnr.: 22485834

Autorenporträt

Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D., LL.D. (Hon.), is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and Co-Director of the Georgetown-Johns Hopkins Program on Law and Public Health. Zita Lazzarini, J.D., M.P.H., is a public health lawyer and Lecturer on AIDS, law, and human rights at Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Public Health, and Tufts University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword: José Ayala Lasso, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
and Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS
* 1: International Human Rights Law in the AIDS Pandemic
* 2: Harmonizing Human Rights and Public Health
* 3: Human Rights Impact Assessment
* 4: AIDS Policies and Practices: Integrating Public
* Health Benefits and Human Rights
* 5: Case Studies Raising Critical Questions in HIV Policy and
Research: Balancing Public Health Benefits
* and Human Rights Burdens