Buch, Englisch, 734 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1423 g
Buch, Englisch, 734 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1423 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-921396-2
Verlag: ACADEMIC
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 and
human 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 is
widespread 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 mental
health. 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.
Zielgruppe
Mental-health professionals, lawyers, philosophers, human-rights workers, and their organisations, for example, the UN and other international agencies.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
- Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
Weitere Infos & Material
Semyon Gluzman: A personal testament
1: Winton Higgins: Human rights development: provenance, ambit and effect
2: Charles Watters: Mental health and illness as human rights issues: philosophical, historical and social perspectives and controversies
3: Michael L Perlin and Eva Szeli.: Mental health law and human rights: evolution and contemporary challenges
4: Laurence Kirmayer: Culture and context in human rights
5: Jennifer Randall, Graham Thornicroft, Elaine Brohan, Aliya Kassam, Elanor Lewis-Holmes, and Nisha Mehta: Stigma and discrimination: critical human rights issues for mental health
6: Alexander McFarlane and Richard Bryant: Genes, Biology, Mental Health and Human Rights. The Effects of Traumatic Stress as a Case Example
7: Tristan McGeorge and Dinesh Bhugra: Race, class, mental health and human rights
8: Roshni Mangalore, Martin Knapp and David McDaid: Mental health economics, mental health policies and human rights
9: Catherine Esposito and Daniel Tarantola: Mental disability, HIV and human rights
10: Amita Dhanda: Universal Legal Capacity as a Universal Human Right
Eugene Brody: Technology and human rights: a personal perspective
Ezra Susser and Mich Bresnahan: Global mental health and social justice
Human rights abuses, psychiatry, nation states and markets
Introduction
11: Michael Dudley and Fran Gale: Through a glass, darkly: Legacies of the Nazis and the Nuremberg trials for mental health and human rights
12: Robert van Voren: The abuse of psychiatry for political purposes
13: Derrick Silove, Susan Rees, and Zachary Steel: The return of torture
14: Jim Welsh: Medicine, mental health and capital punishment
15: Danny Sullivan and Paul Mullen: Mental health and human rights in secure settings
16: Alan Rosen, Tully Miller Rosen, and Patrick McGorry: The rights of people with severe and persistent mental illness
17: Jonathan H. Marks: Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape: A Framework Proposal for the Comprehension and Prevention of Health Professionals' Complicity in Detainee Abuse
18: Thomas Kallert: Coercive treatment in psychiatry: a human rights issue?
19: Philip Mitchell: Psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry - on the ethics of a complex relationship
Vikram Patel, Arthur Kleinman, and Benedetto Saraceno: Protecting the human rights of people with mental disorders: a call to action for global mental health
Meg Smith: Coercive psychiatry: a personal view
Some vulnerable groups
20: Sarah Mares and Jon Jureidini: Child and adolescent refugees and asylum seekers in Australia: The Ethics of exposing children to suffering to achieve social outcomes
21: Zachary Steel, Catherine R. Bateman Steel, and Derrick Silove: Civilian populations affected by conflict and displacement: Mental health and the human rights imperative
22: Kathleen Maltzahn and Louella Villadiego: Trafficking, mental health and human rights
23: Beverley Raphael, Carol Nadelson, Mel Taylor, and Jennifer Jacobs: Human rights and women's mental health
24: Ernest Hunter, Helen Milroy, Ngiare Brown, and Tom Calma: Mental health, human rights and indigenous people
25: Ian Hall and Evan Yacoub: Human rights for people with intellectual disabilities
26: Mark Tomlinson, Peter Cooper, Leslie Swartz, and Mireille Landman: Reflections from a mother-infant intervention: a human rights based approach to research collaboration
27: Myron Belfer and Diana Samarasan: Missing Voices: Speaking up for the rights of children and adolescents with disabilities
28: Carmelle Peisah and Henry Brodaty: The mental health and rights of mentally ill older people
29: Louise Newman: Mental health, rights and people with diverse sexual identities and orientations
30: Adrian Carter and Wayne Hall: The rights of individuals treated for drug addiction
Lakshmi Vijayakumar and Lillian Craig Harris: The veil of silence: human rights and suicide
Protection of mental health: current provisions and how they may be strengthened
Introduction
31: Crick Lund, Tom Sutcliffe, Alan Flisher, and Dan J. Stein: : Protecting the rights of the mentally ill in poorly resourced settings: experiences from four African countries
32: Francois Crepeau and Anne-Claire Gayet: Human rights standards relevant to mental health and how they may be made more effective
33: John RM Copeland, Eugene Brody, Tony Fowke, Preston Garrison, and Janet Meagher: The role of world associations and the United Nations
34: David Oaks: Whose voices should be heard: the role of mental health consumers, psychiatric survivors and families
Gunilla Backman and Judith Mesquita: The Right to Health
35: Oliver Lewis and Nell Munro: The right to participation of people with mental disabilities in legal and policy reforms
36: Susan Rees and Derrick Silove: Human rights in the real world: exploring best practice research in a mental health context
37: ?ahika Yüksel, Dilek Cindo?lu and Ufuk Sezgin.: Women's Bodies, Sexualities and Human Rights
38: Peter Walker, Julia Shearsby and Zachary Steel: Cognitive-behavioural therapy, human rights and psychosis
39: Fran Gale and Michael Dudley: Promoting social goodness and preventing human rights violations: a post-Nuremberg inheritance for the helping professions
Towards the future
Norman Sartorius: Afterword: Global mental health and human rights: barriers and opportunities




