Critical Approaches To Teaching Health And Human Rights In A Pandemic
The sweeping disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated broad public concern with the connections between population health, health systems, and democracy, on the one hand, and between our neoliberal global order and the realization of health and other human rights, on the other. Students across geographic regions and disciplines—law, public health, nursing, sociology, gender studies, anthropology, and the like— are grappling with how to understand the suffering we ourselves and close friends and family are experiencing, as well as diverse people across our societies and the globe—and what are appropriate legal, political and economic responses?