Global health and human rights : legal and philosophical perspectives / edited by John Harrington and Maria Stuttaford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / John Harrington and Maria Stuttaford -- The place of the human right to health and contemporary approaches to global justice : some impertinent interrogations / Upendra Baxi -- Developing and applying the right to the highest attainable standard of health : the role of the UN special rapporteur (2002-2008) / Paul Hunt and Sheldon Leader -- What future for the minimum core? contextualizing the implications of South African socio-economic rights jurisprudence for the international human right to health / Lisa Forman -- The ancillary-care responsibilities of researchers : reasonable but not great expectations / Roger Brownsword -- Human rights and health sector corruption / Brigit Toebes -- The child's right to health and the courts / Aoife Nolan -- The World Health Organization, the evolution of human rights and the failure to achieve health for all / Benjamin Mason Meier -- The human right to health in an age of market hegemony / Paul O'Connell.