International human rights and comparative mental disability law : cases and materials /

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Imprint:Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2006.
Description:xxiii, 1021 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Carolina Academic Press law casebook series
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6158963
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Other authors / contributors:Perlin, Michael L., 1946-
ISBN:1594602107 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Constitutional mental disability law
  • 3. Overview of international human rights law
  • 4. On sanism and pretextuality
  • 5. Mental disability law in a socio-political context : the role of institutional psychiatry in the suppression of political dissent
  • 6. Mental disability law in an international human rights context
  • 7. Comparative mental disability law
  • 8. Universal factors
  • 9. Trends in comparative mental health legislation
  • 10. A global perspective on mental disability rights
  • Other disability rights issues.