Human Rights as a Contingent Foundation: The Case of Physicians for Human RightsFootnote¹

I thank the members of Physicians for Human Rights USA and Israel for their cooperation and assistance, as well as Catherine Rottenberg, Jacinda Swanson, and Thomas Cushman for their constructive comments on earlier drafts. The research for this article benfited from the financial support of the Israeli Academy for the Sciences and the Minerva Institue for Human Rights at Hebrew University.

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