The World Health Organization, the evolution of human rights, and the failure to achieve Health for All

Global Health and Human Rights: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 163-189

  Meier, Benjamin Mason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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