Mental Health and Human Rights : Vision, Praxis, and Courage, Hardcover

by Dudley, Michael (EDT); Silove, Derrick (EDT); Gale, Fran (EDT)

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Mental Health and Human Rights : Vision, Praxis, and Courage, Hardcover by Dudley, Michael (EDT); Silove, Derrick (EDT); Gale, Fran (EDT), ISBN 0199213968, ISBN-13 9780199213962, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US People with mental disorders often suffer the worst conditions of life - a problem exacerbated by social stigma. In practice, the international community still tends to prioritise human rights in a manner that largely ignores mental health, which in turn remains in the shadow of physical-health programs. In recent decades mental health and human rights have come to the fore as areas of practice, inquiry, national policy-making and shared international concern. Mental health now 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 the achievement of human rights. It is remarkable therefore that the struggle for human rights over the past two centuries largely bypassed the plight of those with mental disabilities: this sector of the population has been excluded from the groups whose rights have received most attention. Mental health and human rights have achieved prominence independently with little focus on the connections between them. Until now, policy makers, the media, scholars, practitioners and client groups have largely failed to grapple with the essential interdependence betwee

• ISBN: 9780199213962
• Condition: Fine

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