Human rights in patient care: a themed issue.

This issue of Health and Human Rights has a themed section on these concerns. The articles explore various facets of “human rights in patient care,” or the application of human rights principles to the context of patient care. The first piece, which Jonathan Cohen and I co-authored, lays out the human rights in patient care framework. It provides a typology of critical human rights applicable to patients and providers and differentiates the concept of human rights in patient care from other paradigms commonly applied to health care settings, such as the right to health (which overlaps with human rights in patient care in certain ways), patients’ rights, patient safety, and bioethics.