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Books, Readable and Valuable as References
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Please note that there is a list of books on the subject of universal health care at the main website for Project EINO. CLICK . That list of books is more extensive, although the books only briefly deal with the issue of the "Right to Health Care". Also at that website, you can download a free pamphlet on the "Right to Health Care" in Acrobat format. CLICK
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"Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millenium, by A. Belden Fields. Palgrave Macmillan 2003. ISBN 3-4039-6062-3 . See also our summary of his ten principles underlying a new holistic approach to human rights.
This is a wonderful and engaging book for anyone keenly interested in the topic of human rights from a historical or philosophical perspective. The book is rich in implications for current activism and shaping the world for our children and grandchildren. Project EINO is in the process of incorporating much of the relevant material into this website. |
SICKNESS AND WEALTH: The Corporate Assault on Global Health, Edited by Meredith Fort, Mary Anne Mercer and Oscar Gish. South End Press 2004. $18 Sickness and Wealth is an enlightening and in-depth collection of essays on this, perhaps the most central, of corporate assaults. This book will raise any reader’s awareness of how health care issues, especially in the third world, are naturally intertwined with the issues of poverty, environmental degradation, militarism, racism, issues of democratic participation and all issues of economic justice. Read a longer review.
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How to Use "New" Civil Rights Laws after 9-11, edited by Ann Fagan Ginger, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute 2002. www.mcli.org
This is an important reference for work in the real world on civil rights issues. The volume provides original texts of many of the key laws including international treaties, conventions and charters with commentary. More importantly it provides information about how these laws already have been used and can be used in the future in arguing cases in court or support for state, county, or municipal amendments and resolutions. The book was written specifically for use by activists, lawyers, teachers, media and legislators. Project EINO is in the process of incorporating much of the relevant material into this website. |
Not Just a Tragedy: Access to Medications as a Right Under International Law
Boston Univ International Law Journal Vol 21, No. 2, 46 pages. Alicia E. Yamin JD and MPH is an instructor in the Department of Health Policy and Management Harvard School of Public Health residing most of the year in Montevideo Uruguay. She is Vice President of the Center for Economic and Social Rights and on the advisory board for Physicians for Human Rights. Dr. Yamin's groundbreaking work on Access to Medications on Under International Law (see citation below) focuses on medications in particular although the law she cites applies equally to other medically necessary treatments. |
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor (2003), by Dr. Paul Farmer, University of California Press; (November 1, 2004), ISBN: 0520243269, 419 pages
Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, faculty member of the Harvard Medical School, Department of Social Medicine, is a medical anthropologist whose work draws primarily on active clinical practice and focuses on diseases disproportionately afflicting the poor. He divides his clinical time between the Brigham and Women's Hospital (Division of Infectious Disease), where he is an attending physician, and a charity hospital in rural Haiti, the Clinique Bon Sauveur, where he serves as medical co-director. Read a longer review. |
SCHOOL: The Story of American Public Education. Tyack, D.E., J.D. Anderson, L. Cuban, C.F. Kaestle, D. Ravitch. Beacon Press 2001
This book is useful for consideration of the historical precedent set for such human rights as the right to health care, or the right to education in the USA. Especially interesting is the aspect of state-by-state struggle for the right to education. It is also interesting that the leading objections to the right to education were much the same as what we hear against the right to health care today. |
THE UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO EDUCATION: Justification, Definition and Guidelines, Joel Spring. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. Publishers 2000
One of very few resources available on this important topic. Unfortunately the book begins with mistaken premises and moves on predictably to weaker conclusions. The premise is that there was no valid international agreement in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, because the US Senate never ratified it. However, as a declaration rather than a treaty or convention it never required ratification, nor was the Senate ever asked to ratify it. It received the presidential signature which was all that was required. Furthermore, the UNDHR has been used in some 150 US court cases already.
Book concludes with admonishment that students of human rights should not trust in international law at all, as adopted by and agreed to by the United Nations. Author offers a weak argument for supporting the right to education as a special case, however, in lieu of the solid basis in international law. |
Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care? by Richard A. Epstein. Addison-Wesley Publishing 1997.
This is an important book to read for anyone who is involved in working towards the right to health care. It expounds on all of the opposing propositions to the "Right to Health Care" in grand libertarian fashion. Its weakness and dishonesty lie largely in the omission of the relevant context of opposition to all social systems of care (police, fire departments, public education etc.). A one page summary and discussion of this book is posted at our website. CLICK |
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