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  1. Avoiding Cultural Imperialism in the Human Right to Health.Kathryn Muyskens - 2021 - Asian Bioethics Review 14 (1):87-101.
    As political instruments, human rights can be challenged in two important ways: first, by undermining the claim to universality by appealing to a kind of cultural relativism, and second, by accusing human rights of unjustifiably imposing values that are not genuinely universal (which I dub the problem of parochialism). The human right to health is no exception. If a human right to health is to be a useful instrument in mobilizing action for global health justice, then we need to take (...)
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  • A Human Right to What Kind of Health?Kathryn Muyskens - 2022 - Ethics and Social Welfare 16 (4):364-379.
    Until now, it has mostly been assumed that the kind of health the human right to health is concerned with is clearly understood and universal. Here, I question this assumption and offer an explicitly political and pluralistic account of health that is designed to help guide international and cross-cultural interventions on behalf of health. In order to be a useful mechanism of accountability, the human right to health needs an enforceable minimum standard of health by which to judge situations and (...)
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