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Global Health Law. by Lawrence O. Gostin. Cambridge MA, London: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi, 541. Index. $55, £40.95, €49.50.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
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1 Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (2008); Taylor, Allyn Lise, Making the World Health Organization Work: A Legal Framework for Universal Access to the Conditions for Health, 18 Amer. J.L. & Med. 301 (1992)Google Scholar; Fidler, David P., International Law and Infectious Diseases (1999)Google Scholar.
2 See, e.g., John Tobin, The Right to Health in International Law (2012); Benn McGrady, Trade and Public Health: The WTO, Tobacco, Alcohol, and Diet (2011).
3 Gian Luca Burci & Claude-Henri Vignes, World Health Organization (2004).
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5 Gostin rightly contrasts GGH with the more commonly used concept of “global health governance (GHG),” which is “limited to the norms and institutions that operate within the health sector” (p. 72).
6 Several similar points are raised in another recent review of Gostin’s volume. Moon, Suerie, Global Health Law: What, When and for What Purpose? A Commentary on Lawrence Gostin’s Global Health Law, 8 Global Health Governance 8 (2014)Google Scholar, available at http://blogs.shu.edu/ghg/files/2014/12/2014-Spring-Autumn-Issue.pdf#page=8.
7 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 14, The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, paras. 11, 12, UN Doc. E/C.12/2000/14 (2000).
8 Gostin, Lawrence O. & Friedman, Eric A., A Retrospective and Prospective Analysis of the West African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic: Robust National Health Systems at the Foundation and an Empowered WHO at the Apex, 385 Lancet 1902, 1904 (2015)CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.
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