An Overview of Health Care Jurisprudence in India
This chapter provides a synthesis of the health care jurisprudence that has been laid down through litigations in various intersecting domains of health care in the post-independence period. The foundations of health care jurisprudence were first laid dow
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Health Justice in India Citizenship, Power and Health Care Jurisprudence
Health Justice in India
Edward Premdas Pinto
Health Justice in India Citizenship, Power and Health Care Jurisprudence
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Edward Premdas Pinto School of Development Azim Premji University Bengaluru, India
ISBN 978-981-15-8142-7 ISBN 978-981-15-8143-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8143-4
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Dedicated to those who taught me the meanings of Dignity and social justice Late Mrs. Mary Magdalene Pinto, my mother, a healer, practitioner of folk and herbal medicines and a traditional birth attendant for several disadvantaged women in my village Late Mr. Joseph Pinto, my father, a silent companion in life Madiga Dalit Women of JAGRUTHA MAHILA SANGHANTANE, Pothnal (Raichur—Karnataka, India), where I realised the depth and breadth of social injustices and systemic oppression of the poor, and the resilience of the community to combat injustice.
Foreword
With the adoption of the sustainable development goals, the idea of social and health justice has figured prominently globally. These ideas have found resonance in the context of rising socio-economic inequalities within and across countries. Employing the framework of health as a right, there has been an effort to employ legal instruments to address questions of inequalities in access to health and health care. In addition, it has also been used, with limited success, to regulate medical care institutions and the practice of medicine. The realisation of health as a right is an outcome of a broad alliance of progressive forces consisting of a plu
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