History
Barnes traced the history of this disease, and the debate over whether it was contagious
Tuberculosis
Bentham said the right action is the one that maximizes this
Utility (happiness, or preventing suffering)
The UN document that kicked off Human Rights 1
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Wrote A Theory of Justice in 1971
John Rawls
Mill ranked these as higher and lower (Hint: Love Island vs. a concert)
Pleasures
Hamilton's reading treated this as a danger to worker safety and a call for regulation
Lead poisoning
Mill argued that respecting this is what produces the most happiness over the long run
Individual liberty
This declaration framed primary health care as a human right, not curative care for elites
The Declaration of Alma-Ata
Studied the 1916 typhus outbreak, the Bracero Program and medical deportations
Molina
The field we contrasted with public health ethics
Bioethics
Colgrove & Samuel show vaccine refusal has long been argued as freedom from this
Government coercion
The principle that if you carry a burden for public health, you should get public support in return
Reciprocity
Asher compares civil and political rights with these
Economic, social and cultural rights
Showed how infectious disease was tied to Mexican and Filipino immigrants in the early 20th-century U.S.
Abel
Childress et al. describe a tension between public health and individual rights like these two
Autonomy and privacy
Reverby draws lessons from these two U.S.-run STD research studies
Tuskegee and Guatemala
Sandel's price-gouging example took place after this storm
Hurricane Charley
Reproductive justice means much more than this one word
“Choice”
Framed cultural rights as part of women's rights, not an obstacle to them
Shaheed
Rawls's term for the luck of the talents and circumstances you're born with
The natural lottery
Immerwahr compares hookworm treatment in the American South with treatment here
Puerto Rico
Rawls's thought experiment where you choose society's rules without knowing your race, class or health
The veil of ignorance
This U.S. decision fits a wider pattern of rights violations and state neglect seen around the world
Dobbs
Examined populism as a challenge to human rights and proposed strategies to push back
Simmons argues joy belongs in human rights work. Where does joy fit in public health?
Rawls's rule that inequalities are allowed only if they most benefit the least advantaged
The difference principle