Each of the four contributors to Human Rights and Cultural Meanings is a scholar in the area of moral rights, especially its very complex subdomain of human rights. From their different perspectives they clarify the ongoing, socially constructed character of rights theory in general as well as its specific contemporary version, "human rights." The first chapter, "Human rights as social constructions" by Patricia Werhane and Thomas Wren, focuses directly on the socially constructed character of the concept of rights, especially the contemporary notion of human rights. Abstract models of human...