Health and Human Rights Course, Program in Human Rights and Medicine in the Medical School at the University of Minnesota

Fall 2006

Health and Human Rights - 2 Cr.

PubH 6800-001
(Topics in Health Services Research and Policy)

Mondays, 3:35-5:30 p.m.
Mayo D327

Instructor: Kirk C. Allison, Ph.D., M.S.

Open to all Academic Health Center, Graduate, and Professional students (interested others may contact instructor)

This course explores the relationship of health and human rights under a public health horizon, both historical and contemporary.

• History, philosophical frameworks, groundings of human rights
• The development of the nexus between health and human rights
• Topics at the crossroads of health and human rights, historical and contemporary. For example:
• Public Health powers and human rights.
• Eugenics
• Mental health, psychiatry and human rights
• Disability, health and human rights
• Torture
• Genocide
• Gender, health, and human rights<
• Reproductive health, population policy and human rights
• Organ trade
• Pandemics, discrimination and access to essential medicines
• Children's health; child labor
• Human rights and the double helix: Genomics and human rights

For additional information please contact Kirk Allison at alli0001@umn.edu or 612-626-6559.