Table of Contents

Semyon Gluzman: A personal testament1: Winton Higgins: Human rights development: provenance, ambit and effect2: Charles Watters: Mental health and illness as human rights issues: philosophical, historical and social perspectives and controversies3: Michael L Perlin and Eva Szeli.: Mental health law and human rights: evolution and contemporary challenges4: Laurence Kirmayer: Culture and context in human rights5: Jennifer Randall, Graham Thornicroft, Elaine Brohan, Aliya Kassam, Elanor Lewis-Holmes, and Nisha Mehta: Stigma and discrimination: critical human rights issues for mental health6: Alexander McFarlane and Richard Bryant: Genes, Biology, Mental Health and Human Rights. The Effects of Traumatic Stress as a Case Example7: Tristan McGeorge and Dinesh Bhugra: Race, class, mental health and human rights8: Roshni Mangalore, Martin Knapp and David McDaid: Mental health economics, mental health policies and human rights9: Catherine Esposito and Daniel Tarantola: Mental disability, HIV and human rights10: Amita Dhanda: Universal Legal Capacity as a Universal Human RightEugene Brody: Technology and human rights: a personal perspectiveEzra Susser and Mich Bresnahan: Global mental health and social justiceHuman rights abuses, psychiatry, nation states and marketsIntroduction11: Michael Dudley and Fran Gale: Through a glass, darkly: Legacies of the Nazis and the Nuremberg trials for mental health and human rights12: Robert van Voren: The abuse of psychiatry for political purposes13: Derrick Silove, Susan Rees, and Zachary Steel: The return of torture14: Jim Welsh: Medicine, mental health and capital punishment15: Danny Sullivan and Paul Mullen: Mental health and human rights in secure settings16: Alan Rosen, Tully Miller Rosen, and Patrick McGorry: The rights of people with severe and persistent mental illness17: Jonathan H. Marks: Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape: A Framework Proposal for the Comprehension and Prevention of Health Professionals' Complicity in Detainee Abuse18: Thomas Kallert: Coercive treatment in psychiatry: a human rights issue?19: Philip Mitchell: Psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry - on the ethics of a complex relationshipVikram Patel, Arthur Kleinman, and Benedetto Saraceno: Protecting the human rights of people with mental disorders: a call to action for global mental healthMeg Smith: Coercive psychiatry: a personal viewSome vulnerable groups20: Sarah Mares and Jon Jureidini: Child and adolescent refugees and asylum seekers in Australia: The Ethics of exposing children to suffering to achieve social outcomes21: Zachary Steel, Catherine R. Bateman Steel, and Derrick Silove: Civilian populations affected by conflict and displacement: Mental health and the human rights imperative22: Kathleen Maltzahn and Louella Villadiego: Trafficking, mental health and human rights23: Beverley Raphael, Carol Nadelson, Mel Taylor, and Jennifer Jacobs: Human rights and women's mental health24: Ernest Hunter, Helen Milroy, Ngiare Brown, and Tom Calma: Mental health, human rights and indigenous people25: Ian Hall and Evan Yacoub: Human rights for people with intellectual disabilities26: Mark Tomlinson, Peter Cooper, Leslie Swartz, and Mireille Landman: Reflections from a mother-infant intervention: a human rights based approach to research collaboration27: Myron Belfer and Diana Samarasan: Missing Voices: Speaking up for the rights of children and adolescents with disabilities28: Carmelle Peisah and Henry Brodaty: The mental health and rights of mentally ill older people29: Louise Newman: Mental health, rights and people with diverse sexual identities and orientations30: Adrian Carter and Wayne Hall: The rights of individuals treated for drug addictionLakshmi Vijayakumar and Lillian Craig Harris: The veil of silence: human rights and suicideProtection of mental health: current provisions and how they may be strengthenedIntroduction31: 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 countries32: Francois Crepeau and Anne-Claire Gayet: Human rights standards relevant to mental health and how they may be made more effective33: John RM Copeland, Eugene Brody, Tony Fowke, Preston Garrison, and Janet Meagher: The role of world associations and the United Nations34: David Oaks: Whose voices should be heard: the role of mental health consumers, psychiatric survivors and familiesGunilla Backman and Judith Mesquita: The Right to Health35: Oliver Lewis and Nell Munro: The right to participation of people with mental disabilities in legal and policy reforms36: Susan Rees and Derrick Silove: Human rights in the real world: exploring best practice research in a mental health context37: Sahika Yüksel, Dilek Cindoglu and Ufuk Sezgin.: Women's Bodies, Sexualities and Human Rights38: Peter Walker, Julia Shearsby and Zachary Steel: Cognitive-behavioural therapy, human rights and psychosis39: Fran Gale and Michael Dudley: Promoting social goodness and preventing human rights violations: a post-Nuremberg inheritance for the helping professionsTowards the futureNorman Sartorius: Afterword: Global mental health and human rights: barriers and opportunities

Reviews

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*