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Jonathan Wolff, The Human Right to Health (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012), 139 pages. ISBN: 978-0393343380. Softcover $15.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Sara J. Reed
Sara J. Reed*
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Department of Political Science, Lewis University, One University Parkway, Romeoville, IL 60446. reedsn@lewisu.edu
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , Spring 2014 , pp. 94 - 95
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