Global Prescriptions

Author: Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1842770071
Category: Medical

Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights

Global Prescriptions is a critical yet optimistic analysis of the role of transnational women's groups in setting the agendas for women's health in international and national settings. Download Global Prescriptions medical books for free.
The book reviews a decade of women's participation in UN conferences, transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and sexual and reproductive health provision, assessing both their strengths and weaknesses. It critiques the Cairo, Beijing and Copenhagen conference documents and World Bank, WHO and health sector reform policies. It also offers case studies of national-level reform and advocacy efforts and appraises the controversy concerning TRIPS, trade, and essential AIDS drugs. The author takes into account the formidable political and ideological forc Get Global Prescriptions our bestseller medical books.

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