The place of the human right to health and contemporary approaches to global justice: Some impertinent interrogations

All questions about human rights raise the familiar concerns regarding their origins (sources, whether human or transhuman), authorship (the debate over human rights as gifts of ‘West to the Rest’), reach (universality v. cultural specificity), nature/type (in terms of here-and-now enforceability and progressive realisation), limits (because no human right can claim any absoluteness, all human rights invite conflicting interpretations), scope (what obligation do rights cast and upon whom) and of the justice of rights (justification for prioritisation, hierarchies, and distribution of rights.) The human right to health (hereinafter, simply HRTH) talk constitutes no exception.