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Edited by William F. Schulz
315 pp, $45.50
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4111-2

JAMA. 2009;301(1):106.

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The theme of this book is "how the pursuit of human rights by the United States [can] be dissociated from a neoconservative program now largely discredited in the world's eyes" (p 10). The chapters that follow explore this theme as it applies to terrorism; the rule of law; humanitarian intervention; sanctions; democracy promotion; international cooperation; economic, social, and cultural rights; trade and human rights; workers' rights; women's rights; religious repression; and the organization of the federal government.

Each of the authors assumes that protecting and promoting human rights, including a "right to health for all," should be a high priority for the federal government at home and abroad. Physicians for Human Rights, a US advocacy group that won a Nobel Peace Prize, has championed this assumption for many years, as have other organizations associated with the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations.

Many readers of JAMA may not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Daniel M. Fox, PhD, Reviewer
Milbank Memorial Fund
New York, New York
dmfox@milbank.org

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