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Title Mental health and human rights : vision, praxis, and courage / edited by Michael Dudley, Derrick Silove and Fran Gale.

Imprint Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 704 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary "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 on every aspect of health andhuman well-being, and so becomes essential to achieving human rights. It is remarkable however that the struggle for human rights over the past two centuries largely bypassed the plight of those with mental disabilities. Mental health is frequently absent from routine health and social policy-making and research, and from many global health initiatives, for example, the Millenium Development Goals. Yet the impact of mental disorder is profound, not least when combined with poverty, mass trauma and social disruption, as in many poorer countries. Stigma iswidespread and mental disorders frequently go unnoticed and untreated. Even in settings where mental health has attracted attention and services have undergone reform, resources are typically scarce, inequitably distributed, and inefficiently deployed. Social inclusion of those with psychosocial disabilities languishes as a distant ideal. In practice, therefore, the international community still tends to prioritise human rights while largely ignoring mental health, which remains in the shadow of physical-health programs. Yet not only do persons with mental disorders suffer deprivations of human rights but violations of human rights are now recognized as a major cause of mental disorder - a pattern that indicates how inextricably linked are the two domains. This volume offers the first attempt at a comprehensive survey of the key aspects of this interrelationship. It examines the crucial relationships and histories of mental health and human rights, and their interconnections with law, culture, ethnicity, class, economics, neuro-biology, and stigma. It investigates the responsibilities of states in securing the rights of those with mental disabilities, the predicaments of vulnerable groups, and the challenge of promoting and protecting mentalhealth. In this wide-ranging analysis, many themes recur - for example, the enormous mental health burdens caused by war and social conflicts; the need to include mental-health interventions in humanitarian programs in a manner that does not undermine traditional healing and recovery processes of indigenous peoples; and the imperative to reduce gender-based violence and inequities. It particularly focuses on the first-person narratives of mental-health consumers, their families and carers, the collective voices that invite a major shift in vision and praxis. The book will be valuable for mental-health and helping professionals, lawyers, philosophers, human-rights workers and their organisations, the UN and other international agencies, social scientists, representatives of government, teachers, religious professionals, researchers, and policy-makers"--Provided by publisher.
Contents Human rights development: Provenance, ambit, and effect / W. Higgins -- Mental health and illness as human rights issues: Philosophical, historical and social perspectives and controversies / C. Watters -- Mental health law and human rights: Evolution and contemporary challenges / M.L. Perlin and E. Szeli -- Culture and context in human rights / L.J. Kirmayer -- Stigma and discrimination: Critical human rights issues for mental health / J. Randal [and others] -- / Genes, biology, mental health, and human rights: The effects of traumatic stress as a case example / A.C. McFarlane and R.A. Bryant -- Race equality in mental health / T. McGeorge and D. Bhugra -- Mental health economics, mental health policies, and human rights / R. Mangalore [and others] -- HIV, mental health, and human rights / C. Esposito and D. Tarantola -- Universal legal capacity as a universal human right / A. Dhanda -- Thinking about human rights / E.B. Brody -- Global mental health and social justice / E. Susser and M. Brenahan -- Through a glass, darkly: Nazi era illuminations of psychiatry, human rights, and rights violations / M. Dudley and F. Gale -- / The abuse of psychiatry for political purposes / R. von Voren -- Descent into the Dark Ages: Torture and its perceived legitimacy / D. Silove [and others] -- Medicine, mental health, and capital punishment / J. Welsh -- Mental health and human rights in secure settings / D. Sullivan and P.E. Mullen -- The human rights of people with severe and persistent mental illness: Can conflicts between dominant and non-dominant paradigms be reconciled / A. Rosen [and others] -- Survival, evasion, resistance and escape: A framework proposal for the comprehension and prevention of health professionals' complicity in the detainee abuse / J.H. Marks -- Coercive treatment in psychiatry: A human rights issue / T.W. Kallert -- Psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry: On the ethics of a complex relationship / P.B. Mitchell -- Protecting the human rights of people with mental illnesses: A call to action for global mental health / V. Patel [and others] -- Detained, diagnosed, and discharged: Human rights and the lived experience of mental illness in New South Wales, Australia / M. Smith
Civilian populations affected by conflict and displacement: Mental health and the human rights imperative / Z. Steel [and others] -- Child and adolescent refugees and asylum seekers in Australia: The ethics of exposing children to suffering to achieve social outcomes / S. Mares and J. Jureidini -- Human rights and women's mental health / B. Raphael [and others] -- Trafficking, mental health, and human rights / K. Maltzah and L. Villadiego -- Women's bodies, sexualities and human rights / S. Yuksel [and others] -- Human rights, health, and indigenous Australians / E. Hunger [and others] -- Human rights for people with intellectual disabilities / I. Hall and E. Yacoub -- Missing voices: Speaking up for the rights of children and adolescents with disabilities / M.L. Belfer and D. Samarasan -- The mental health and rights of mentally ill older people / C. Peisah [and others] -- Sex and gender: Biology, culture, and the expression of gender / L. Newman -- The rights of individuals treated for drug, alcohol and tobacco addiction / A. Carter and W. Hall -- The veil of silence: Human rights and suicide / L. Vijayakumar and L.C. Harris -- Protecting the rights of the mentally ill in poorly resourced settings: Experiences from four African countries / C. Lund ... [et all] -- Human rights standards relevant to mental health and how they can be made more effective / F. Crepeau and A.C. Gayet -- The role of world associations and the united nations / J. Copeland [and others] -- Whose voices should be heard? The role of mental health consumers, psychiatric survivors, and families / D.W. Oaks -- The right to health / G. Backman and J.B. de Mesquita -- The right to participation of people with mental disabilities in legal and policy reforms / O. Lewis and N. Munro -- Human rights in the real world: Exploring best practice research in a mental health context / S. Rees and D. Silove -- Reflections from a mother-infant intervention: A human rights-based approach to a research collaboration / M. Tomlinson -- Can cognitive behavior therapy act as a human rights intervention for consumers experiencing severe mental disorder / P. Walker [and others] -- Promoting a just society and preventing human rights violations: A post-Nuremberg inheritance for the helping professions / F. Gale and M. Dudley -- Global mental health and human rights: Barriers and opportunities / N. Sartorius.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Mental health laws.
People with mental disabilities.
Human rights.
mentally handicapped.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Human rights
Mental health laws
People with mental disabilities
Indexed Term Health policy
Mental disability
Psychiatry
Refugees
Treaties and conventions
Added Author Dudley, Michael, 1953 October 16-
Silove, Derrick, 1951-
Gale, Fran.
Other Form: Print version: Mental health and human rights. 1st ed. Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2012 9780199213962 (DLC) 2012471072 (OCoLC)773428570
ISBN 9780191629013 (ebook)
0191629014 (ebook)
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0199213968 (hbk.)
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