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2 - Evaluating Interpretations of the Right to Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Audrey R. Chapman
Audrey R. Chapman
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Global Health, Human Rights, and the Challenge of Neoliberal Policies , pp. 29 - 71
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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