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• Title:International human rights and mental disability law : when the silenced are heard / Michael L. Perlin.
  
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• Author/Creator:Perlin, Michael L., 1946-
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
  

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  • Call Number: K640 .P47 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mental health laws.
  People with mental disabilities--Civil rights.
  Insanity (Law)
  
• Medical Subjects: Persons with Mental Disabilities--legislation & jurisprudence.
  Commitment of Mentally Ill--legislation & jurisprudence.
  Human Rights Abuses--prevention & control.
  Human Rights--legislation & jurisprudence.
  Mental Competency--legislation & jurisprudence.
  
• Description:xiv, 339 pages ; 25 cm.
  
• Series:American Psychology-Law Society series.
  
• Summary:"Society is largely blind-often willfully blind-to the ongoing violations of international human rights law when it comes to the treatment of persons with mental disabilities. Despite a robust set of international law principles, standards and doctrines, and the recent ratification of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, people with mental disabilities continue to live in some of the harshest conditions that exist in any society. These conditions are the product of neglect, lack of legal protection against improper and abusive treatment, and social attitudes that demean, trivialize and ignore the humanity of persons with disabilities.
  International Human Rights and Mental Disability Law: When the Silenced are Heard draws attention to these issues in order to shed light on deplorable conditions that governments continue to ignore, and to invigorate the debate on a social policy issue that remains a low priority for most of the world's nations. Examining the mistreatment of persons with mental disabilities around the world, Michael Perlin identifies universal factors that contaminate mental disability law, including lack of comprehensive legislation and of independent counsel; inadequate care; poor or nonexistent community programming; and inhumane forensic systems. Using examples from Western and Eastern Europe, South America, Africa and Asia, Perlin examines and summarizes the growing field of international mental health law, arguing that governmental inaction demeans human dignity, denies personal autonomy, and disregards the most authoritative and comprehensive prescription of human rights obligations.
  As Perlin argues, these issues pertain to all citizens of the world who value human rights and who care about how we treat those of us who may be most vulnerable. International Human Rights and Mental Disability Law is an indispensable resource for scholars, policymakers, governmental officials, and mental health professionals who care about the treatment of those with disabilities, and to human rights advocates and activists worldwide."--Pub. desc.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780195393231 (hardback : alk. paper)
  0195393236 (hardback : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction and Overview
  2. International Human Rights Law in Perspective: Legal Issues and Social Constructs
  2A. International Human Rights in Legal Perspective
  2B. Sanism and Pretextuality
  2C. Dignity
  3. Mental Disability Law in a Comparative Law Context
  4. Use of Mental Disability Law to Suppress Political Dissent
  5. Universal Factors
  6. Application of International Human Rights Law to Mental Disability Law: Specific Contexts
  6A. Law School Pedagogy
  6B. Expert Evidence Law
  6C. Psychotherapist-Patient Law
  6D. Corrections Law
  7. UN Convention: The Impact of the New UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on International Mental Disability Law
  8. UN Convention: The Role of Counsel
  9. Disability Rights Tribunal for Asia and the Pacific
  10. Therapeutic Jurisprudence
  11. Conclusion.