Mental Health and Human Rights: Vision, praxis, and courage - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199213968 ISBN 13: 9780199213962

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2012

Synopsis

First comprehensive survey of the mental health/human rights relationship.

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Review

It is the first ever comprehensive examination of the hugely important, relatively new field in international human rights law. It is especially important in that it offers an inter-disciplinary view on a huge variety of issues without which proper understanding of the issues is simply impossible. ... It is hard not to feel humbled when holding this impressive volume in one's hands. It bravely and comprehensively addresses an issue which has been side-lined for decades, even in the discussions surrounding the right to health. ... The present volume is an ambitious, timely and comprehensive contribution against this prevailing trend, with a unique combination of views and perceptions by so many from diverse disciplines, making it a marked contribution to the hugely important topic of mental health and human rights. (Dr Elina Stienerte, Human Rights Law Review, 13:4)

This textbook is a tour de force in its ambitions and achievement The book is impressively comprehensive, demonstrates appropriately rigorous scholarship, and yet remains lucid and interesting. I have learnt a great deal from it, not least that the scale of the historically cumulative crime committed against people with a mental disorder amounts nationally, if not yet jurisprudentially to a crime against humanity This textbook should appear in every medical library and on every psychiatrist's bookshelf, and representative content should be incorporated into the curricula and examinations of medical students and trainee psychiatrists. (The British Journal of Psychiatry, May 2013)

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199213968
• ISBN 13: 9780199213962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 736
• Editor: Dudley Michael, Silove Derrick, Gale Fran