Interpreting human rights : social science perspectives / edited by Rhiannon Morgan and Bryan S. Turner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: human rights research and the social sciences / Rhiannon Morgan -- Political science and human rights / Todd Landman -- The right to health / Michael Freeman -- Indigenous peoples' rights: anthropology and the right to culture / Colin Samson -- Democratic human rights / Kate Nash -- What does it mean to take the sociology of human rights seriously? / Anthony Woodiwiss -- Forging indigenous rights at the United Nations: a social constructionist account / Rhiannon Morgan -- The new humanism: beyond modernity and postmodernity / Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada -- Corporations and human rights / Gideon Sjoberg -- A sociology of citizenship and human rights: does social theory still exist? / Bryan S. Turner -- Bibliography -- Index.

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