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Can we talk about the right to healthcare without language? A critique of key international human rights law, drawing on the experiences of a Deaf woman in Cape Town, South Africa

Hanne Jensen Haricharan Health and Human Rights Programme, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Marion Heap Health and Human Rights Programme, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Fons Coomans Department of International and European Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Leslie London Health and Human Rights Programme, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Pages 54-66 | Received 16 Sep 2011, Accepted 16 Dec 2011, Published online: 18 Jul 2012

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