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Mental disorders are ubiquitous, profoundly disabling and people suffering from them frequently endure the worst conditions of life.In recent decades both mental health and human rights have emerged as areas of practice, inquiry, national policy-making and shared international concern. Human-rights monitoring and reporting are core features of public administration in most countries, and human rights law has burgeoned. Mental health also enjoys a new dignity in scholarship, international discussions and programs, mass-media coverage and political debate. Today's experts insist that it impacts

Title Mental health and human rights : vision, praxis, and courage / edited by Michael Dudley, Derrick Silove and Fran Gale.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Oxford, U. K. : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English
Content Cover
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 Health6 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 Markets11 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 AbuseCommentary 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 GroupsIntroduction: 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
Extent 1 online resource (733 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997012635461305171
MARC RECORDS
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