Mental Health and Human Rights Vision, praxis, and courage

by Dudley, Michael; Silove, Derrick; Gale, Fran

• ISBN13: 9780191754500
• ISBN10: 0191754501
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2013-02-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Michael Dudley, Adolescent Service, Prince of Wales Hospital, Australia,Derrick Silove, Mental Health Centre, Liverpool Hospital, Australia,Fran Gale, Political Science and Social Work, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Table of Contents

A personal testament, Semyon Gluzman
Part 1: Overarching Conceptual Issues
1. Human rights development: provenance, ambit and effect, Winton Higgins
2. Mental health and illness as human rights issues: philosophical, historical and social perspectives and controversies, Charles Watters
3. Mental health law and human rights: evolution and contemporary challenges, Michael L Perlin and Eva Szeli.
4. Culture and context in human rights, Laurence Kirmayer
5. Stigma and discrimination: critical human rights issues for mental health, Jennifer Randall, Graham Thornicroft, Elaine Brohan, Aliya Kassam, Elanor Lewis-Holmes, and Nisha Mehta
6. Genes, Biology, Mental Health and Human Rights. The Effects of Traumatic Stress as a Case Example, Alexander McFarlane and Richard Bryant
7. Race Equality and Mental Health, Tristan McGeorge and Dinesh Bhugra
8. Mental health economics, mental health policies and human rights, Roshni Mangalore, Martin Knapp and David McDaid
9. HIV, mental health, and human rights, Catherine Esposito and Daniel Tarantola
10. Universal Legal Capacity as a Universal Human Right, Amita Dhanda
Commentary 1: Thinking about human rights: a personal perspective, Eugene Brody
Commentary 2: Global mental health and social justice, Ezra Susser and Mich Bresnahan
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, Michael Dudley and Fran Gale
12. The abuse of psychiatry for political purposes, Robert van Voren
13. Descent into the Dark Ages: Torture in its Perceived Legitimacy in Contemporaru Times, Derrick Silove, Susan Rees, and Zachary Steel
14. Medicine, mental health and capital punishment, Jim Welsh
15. Mental health and human rights in secure settings, Danny Sullivan and Paul Mullen
16. The rights of people with severe and persistent mental illness, Alan Rosen, Tully Miller Rosen, and Patrick McGorry
17. Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape: A Framework Proposal for the Comprehension and Prevention of Health Professionals' Complicity in Detainee Abuse, Jonathan H. Marks
Commentary 3: Coercive treatment in psychiatry: a human rights issue? Thomas Kallert
18. Psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry - on the ethics of a complex relationship, Philip Mitchell
Commentary 4: Protecting the human rights of people with mental disorders: a call to action for global mental health Vikram Patel, Arthur Kleinman, and Benedetto Saraceno
Commentary 5: Detained,Diagnosed, and Discharged: Human Rights and the Lived Experience of Mental Illness in New South Wales, Austrailia Meg Smith
Part 3: Some Vulnerable Groups
Introduction: Some Vulnerable Groups.
19. Civilian Populations Affected By Conflict Displacement: Mental Health and the Human Rights Imperative, Zachary Steel, Catherine R. Bateman Steel, and Derrick Silove
21. Human rights and women's mental health, Beverley
Raphael, Carol Nadelson, Melanie Taylor, and Jennifer Jacobs
22. Trafficking, mental health and human rights, Kathleen Maltzahn and Louella Villadiego
23. Women's Bodies, Sexualities, and Human Rights, Sahika Yuksel, Dilek Cindoglu, and Ufuk Sezgin
24. Human rights, health, and indigenous Austrailians, Ernest Hunter, Helen Milroy, Ngiare Brown, and Tom Calma
25. Human rights for people with intellectual disabilities, Ian Hall and Evan Yacoub
26. Missing Voices: Speaking up for the rights of
children and adolescents with disabilities Myron Belfer
and Diana Samarasan
27. The mental health and rights of mentally ill older people, Carmelle Peisah, Henry Brodaty, and Nick O'Neill
28. Sex and Gender: Biology, Culture, and the Expression of Gender, Louise Newman
29. The rights of individuals treated for drug addiction, Adrian Carter and Wayne Hall
Commentary 6: The veil of silence: human rights and suicide, Lakshmi Vijayakumar and Lillian Craig Harris
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, Crick Lund, Tom Sutcliffe, Alan Flisher, and Dan J. Stein
31. Human rights standards relevant to mental health and how they may be made more effective, Francois Crepeau and Anne-Claire Gayet
32. The role of world associations and the United Nations, John RM Copeland, Eugene Brody, Tony Fowke, Preston Garrison, and Janet Meagher
33. Whose voices should be heard?: the role of mental health consumers, psychiatric survivors and families, David Oaks
Commentary 7: The Right to Health Gunilla Backman and Judith Bueno de Mesquita
34. The right to participation of people with mental disabilities in legal and policy reforms, Oliver Lewis and Nell Munro
35. Human rights in the real world: exploring best practice research in a mental health context, Susan Rees and Derrick Silove
36. Reflections from a mother-infant intervention: a
human rights based approach to research collaboration
Mark Tomlinson, Peter Cooper, Leslie Swartz, and Mireille
Landman
37. Can Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Act as a Human Rights Intervention for Consumers Experiencing Severe Mental Diorder?, Peter Walker, Julia Shearsby and Zachary Steel
38. Promoting a just society and preventing human rights violations: a post-Nuremberg inheritance for the helping professions, Fran Gale and Michael Dudley
Part 5: Towards the Future
Afterword: Global mental health and human rights: barriers and opportunities, Norman Sartorius
Author Index
Subject Index