INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Can Litigation Bring Justice to Health?&Siri Gloppen and Mindy Jane Roseman 1
CHAPTER 2 Litigating Health Rights: Framing the Analysis&Siri Gloppen 17
CASE STUDIES 43
CHAPTER 3 Argentina | Courts and the Right to Health: Achieving Fairness Despite "Routinization" in Individual Coverage Cases?&Paola Bergallo 43
CHAPTER 4 Brazil | Health Inequalities, Rights, and Courts: The Social Impact of the Judicialization of Health&Octavio L. Motta Ferra 76
CHAPTER 5 Colombia | Judicial Protection of the Right to Health: An Elusive Promise?&Alicia Ely Yamin, Oscar Parra-Vera, and Camila Gianella 103
CHAPTER 6 Costa Rica | Health Rights Litigation: Causes and Consequences&Bruce M. Wilson 132
CHAPTER 7 India | Citizens, Courts, and the Right to Health:Between Promise and Progress?&Sharanjeet Parmar and Namita Wahi 155
CHAPTER 8 South Africa | Health Rights Litigation: Cautious Constitutionalism&Carole Cooper 190
CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES 232
CHAPTER 9 Dialogic Justice in the Enforcement of Social Rights: Some Initial Arguments&Roberto Gargarella 232
CHAPTER 10 Litigating the Right to Health: Are Transnational Actors Backseat Driving?&Mindy Jane Roseman and Siri Gloppen 246
CHAPTER 11 Assessing the Impact of Health Rights Litigation: A Comparative Analysis of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, and South Africa&Ottar Mastad, Lise Rakner, and Octavio L. Motta Ferra 273
CHAPTER 12 Litigating for Medicines: How Can We Assess Impact on Health Outcomes?&Ole Frithjof Norheim and Siri Gloppen 304
CONCLUSION 333
CHAPTER 13 Power, Suffering, and Courts: Reflections on Promoting Health Rights through Judicialization&Alicia Ely Yamin 333
References 373
Contributors 407
Index 412
Index of Cases and Laws 433