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Normative approaches to critical health geography

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	Abstract

This article builds on geography’s engagement with ethics by asking what normative geographies focused on human health might look like. We use the ethics of care and human rights law to frame a normative approach to health geography. The article explores the content of these frameworks before grounding them in a particular instance of inequality found in South Africa. Our goal is to demonstrate how care ethics and human rights can powerfully complement one another and inspire a new type of praxis relevant to geographers engaged with ethics and ethical philosophy.

First published on August 21, 2009
Progress in Human Geography 2009, doi:10.1177/0309132509343783


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