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

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

xxvii, 704 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm

1st ed.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.