Chapter 47: Global Public Health
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
10-2025
Editor(s)
Antony Anghie, B.S. Chimni, Michael Fakhri, Karin Mickelson, and Vasuki Nesiah
ISBN
978 1 78990 151 1
Publisher
Edward Elger Publishing
Language
en-US
Abstract
This chapter highlights the ways in which a TWAIL perspective is essential for understanding pervasive inequalities in global health. Despite a growing recognition of the constitutive role of international law in global health, much of the existing global health literature takes an uncritical approach to international law. A TWAIL perspective reveals how international law, even in the register of human rights, often reinforces deep underlying structural inequalities. These structural inequalities perpetuate health disparities between and within nation-states, shaping the highly uneven terrain of global health.
Recommended Citation
Aziza Ahmed & Jason Jackson,
Chapter 47: Global Public Health
,
in
Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
573
(Antony Anghie, B.S. Chimni, Michael Fakhri, Karin Mickelson, and Vasuki Nesiah ed.,
2025).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/4193
