Mental health and human rights : vision, praxis, and courage /
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Imprint: | Oxford, U. K. : Oxford University Press, 2012. |
Description: | xxvii, 704 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Mental health laws. People with mental disabilities. Human rights. Human rights. Mental health laws. People with mental disabilities. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8901258 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Tables, Boxes, and Figures
- A Personal Testament
- Mental Health, Human Rights, and their Relationship: An Introduction
- Part 1. Overarching Conceptual Issues
- Introduction: Overarching conceptual issues
- 1. Human Rights Development: Provenance, Ambit, and Effect
- 2. Mental Health and Illness as Human Rights Issues: Philosophical, Historical, and Social Perspectives and Controversies
- 3. Mental Health Law and Human Rights: Evolution and Contemporary Challenges
- 4. Culture and Context in Human Rights
- 5. Stigma and Discrimination: Critical Human Rights Issues for Mental Health
- 6. Genes, Biology, Mental Health, and Human Rights: The Effects of Traumatic Stress as a Case Example
- 7. Race Equality in Mental Health
- 8. Mental Health Economics, Mental Health Policies, and Human Rights
- 9. HIV, Mental Health, and Human Rights
- 10. Universal Legal Capacity as a Universal Human Right
- Commentary 1. Thinking about Human Rights
- Commentary 2. Global Mental Health and Social Justice
- Part 2. Human Rights Abuses, Psychiatry, Nation States, and Markets
- Introduction: Human Rights Abuses, Mental Health, Nation States, and Markets
- 11. Through a Glass, Darkly: Nazi Era Illuminations of Psychiatry, Human Rights, and Rights Violations
- 12. The Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Purposes
- 13. Descent into the Dark Ages: Torture and its Perceived Legitimacy in Contemporary Times
- 14. Medicine, Mental Health, and Capital Punishment
- 15. Mental Health and Human Rights in Secure Settings
- 16. The Human Rights of People with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness: Can Conflicts between Dominant and Non-Dominant Paradigms be Reconciled?
- 17. Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape: A Framework Proposal for the Comprehension and Prevention of Health Professionals' Complicity in Detainee Abuse
- Commentary 3. Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Human Rights Issue?
- 18. Psychiatrists and the Pharmaceutical Industry: On the Ethics of a Complex Relationship
- Commentary 4. Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Illnesses: A Call to Action for Global Mental Health
- Commentary 5. Detained, Diagnosed, and Discharged: Human Rights and the Lived Experience of Mental Illness in New South Wales, Australia
- Part 3. Some Vulnerable Groups
- Introduction: Some Vulnerable Groups
- 19. Civilian Populations Affected by Conflict and Displacement: Mental Health and the Human Rights Imperative
- 20. Child and Adolescent Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Australia: The Ethics of Exposing Children to Suffering to Achieve Social Outcomes
- 21. Human Rights and Women's Mental Health
- 22. Trafficking, Mental Health, and Human Rights
- 23. Women's Bodies, Sexualities, and Human Rights
- 24. Human Rights, Health, and Indigenous Australians
- 25. Human Rights for People with Intellectual Disabilities
- 26. Missing Voices: Speaking up for the Rights of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities
- 27. The Mental Health and Rights of Mentally Ill Older People
- 28. Sex and Gender: Biology, Culture, and the Expression of Gender
- 29. The Rights of Individuals Treated for Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Addiction
- Commentary 6. The Veil of Silence: Human Rights and Suicide
- Part 4. Protection of Mental Health: Current Provisions and How They may be Strengthened
- Introduction: Protection of Mental Health: Current Provisions and How They may be Strengthened
- 30. Protecting the Rights of the Mentally Ill in Poorly Resourced Settings: Experiences from Four African Countries
- 31. Human Rights Standards Relevant to Mental Health and How They can be Made More Effective
- 32. The Role of World Associations and the United Nations
- 33. Whose Voices Should Be Heard? The Role of Mental Health Consumers, Psychiatric Survivors, and Families
- Commentary 7: The Right to Health
- 34. The Right to Participation of People with Mental Disabilities in Legal and Policy Reforms
- 35. Human Rights in the Real World: Exploring Best Practice Research in a Mental Health Context
- 36. Reflections from a Mother-Infant Intervention: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Research Collaboration
- 37. Can Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Act as a Human Rights Intervention for Consumers Experiencing Severe Mental Disorder?
- 38. Promoting a Just Society and Preventing Human Rights Violations: A Post-Nuremberg Inheritance for the Helping Professions
- Part 5. Towards the Future
- Afterword: Global Mental Health and Human Rights: Barriers and Opportunities
- Author Index
- Subject Index