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Health Rights in Global Historical Perspective
Call for Papers
Conference at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 17-18
February 2011
The idea that individuals have rights within the context of health has
deep roots. The right to health was amongst the ‘rights of man’
established during the French Revolution, and patients’ rights and
doctors’ duties were of concern in places such as England from the
eighteenth century onwards. Rights to health care became incorporated
within European welfare states during the twentieth century but, as more
recent debates over health care in the USA demonstrate, rights and
health remain disputed territory.
This conference aims to explore the understanding and application of
the notion of rights to health within different historical and
geographical settings. Themes to be addressed include (but are not
restricted to):
Changing conceptions of health rights across time and space The health
rights of different population groups (women, ethnic minorities,
migrants, etc.) The health rights of different disease sufferers (mental
illness, communicable disease etc.) Different types of health rights
(reproductive rights, rights to life/death, right to consent, right to
complain, etc.) The construction of different health issues as (human)
rights problems (e.g. access to medicines; women rights to reproductive
health; etc.) Health rights & the law Health rights & the market place
Health rights & the state Health rights & international organisations
(WHO, United Nations, partnerships, etc.) Health rights & health systems
Health rights & access to health care Health rights & civil society
(patient associations; international/national/local NGOs; information
and protest campaigns); The expertise and techniques of health rights
(monitoring/reporting; campaigning; networks of experts and activists;
etc.)
Proposals are invited that address the themes of the conference in any
historical period and geographicalcontext. Papers will be limited to 20
minutes in length. Please submit paper proposals, including a 300 word
abstract and speaker’s contact details, to [log in to unmask] by 1
October 2010.
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