Harvard Series on Health and Human Rights
LEARNING TO DANCE:
Advancing Women's Reproductive Health and Well-Being from the Perspectives of Public Health and Human Rights
Edited by Alicia Ely Yamin
The book promotes understanding of how the fields of health and human rights work together including both addressing human rights implications of reproductive health interventions and fostering rights-based policies and laws relating to sexuality and reproductive health.
A decade after the ground breaking Cairo Conference on Population and Development, a serious gap remains between the reproductive health and human rights fields. Too often despite, using the same language, the two fields do not seem to share the same understanding or strategies. In order to better understand the links and synergies between reproductive health and human rights as well as the continuing gaps between the two fields, this book brings together twelve experts to compare how each field traditionally approaches a situation that presents both health and human rights implications.
Six case studies, illustrating a range of issues in sexual and reproductive health are analyzed both by a public health expert and a human rights expert, and a separate essay synthesizes the convergences and divergences between the two approaches and points to ways forward.
The books editor, Alicia Ely Amin, is a human rights attorney and an instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health. At the time of this writing she is living in Montevideo, Uruguay and working with nongovernmental organizations in Latin America on research and advocacy relating to the intersections of health, development policy and human rights
Learning to Dance is the second book in the Harvard Series on Health and Human Rights produced by the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and distributed by Harvard University Press.
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