HLS Library Book Talk | When Misfortune Becomes Injustice

“When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality” by Alicia Ely Yamin surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades, with a focus on women’s health and rights. Yamin weaves together theory and firsthand experience in a compelling narrative of how evolving legal norms, empirical knowledge, and development paradigms have interacted in the realization of health rights.

In addition to her role as a lecturer on law at HLS, Yamin currently leads the Global Health and Rights Project (GHRP, which is a collaboration of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics (PFC) at Harvard Law School and the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (GHELI) at Harvard University. A significant portion of her current research and policy work at GHRP focuses on legal and ethical issues in relation to priority setting for Universal Health Coverage, and Yamin is also a senior adviser to the Bergen Center on Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS) in Norway.

In addition to Yamin, panelists who participated in discussion included:
– Sue J. Goldie, the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and director of the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University
– Michael Ashley Stein, co-founder and executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and visiting professor at Harvard Law School.
– Katharine Young, associate professor at Boston College Law School.

This event was co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.


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