Review by Choice Review
The case studies in this edited volume highlight some of the many failures of public health experienced by vulnerable populations. Examples range from poor reproductive health status among female refugees and internally displaced people from Burma, survivors of sexual violence during the civil war in Sierra Leone, and Afghan women who had limited access to health care under the Taliban regime, to public policy that compromises the health of Thai drug users, Chinese AIDS activists, Russian commercial sex workers, prisoners, and others. Several chapters specifically address the challenges of collecting data and conducting public health research in populations in which human rights abuses have occurred. The book lacks a strong overview and conclusion that could have tied together the case studies and clarified the ways that various types of human rights violations relate to negative public health outcomes, but many of the case studies are powerful and compelling. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above. K. H. Jacobsen George Mason University
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Review by Choice Review
