Fixing the U.S. Healthcare System: What Role for Human Rights?

Bringing Human Rights Home: Volumes 1-3

Volumn 1-3, Issue , 2007, Pages 173-208

  Irwin, Alec ^a   Rubenstein, Leonard ^d   Cooper, Anne ^b   Farmer, Paul ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE

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