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edited by Jonathan M. Mann, Sofia Gruskin, Michael A. Grodin, and George J. Annas, 505 pp, paper, $28, ISBN 0-415-92102-3, New York, NY, Routledge, 1999.

JAMA. 2000;284:628-629.

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This important book offers the best available entry into the burgeoning field of health and human rights. Edited by two physicians and two lawyers, the book gathers in a single volume 30 articles, all previously published in the 1990s, divided among six sections. The book is dedicated to one of its coeditors, the late Dr Jonathan Mann, who before his tragic death in 1998 was widely considered the most visionary and effective individual committed to advancing this relatively young field.

Part 1 provides three first-rate essays that offer definitions and general overviews of the fields of public health and human rights, emphasizing their complex interrelationships. Part 2 includes three essays assessing the impact of health policies and programs on human rights, with case studies of AIDS and tuberculosis control efforts that have involved unjustified and unnecessary limitations on human rights. A wonderfully lucid essay by Lawrence Gostin and Jonathan Mann . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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