Mental Health
Subtitle: Global Policies and Human Rights
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Wiley
Published: November 29, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781861563880
Subjects: Mental health services; Psychiatry; Nursing - General; Psychiatry - General; Medical / Nursing / General; Medical / Psychiatry; Medical-Psychiatry - General; General; Nursing - Mental Health; Medical; Medical / Nursing
Description: "This book reviews mental health policies across the world and their relationship to the human rights of mentally disordered people. Ten case-studies are presented, each written by an expert in the field of mental health policy within a selected country. What is recorded is a tangle of approaches, some coherent, consistent and caring, whilst others are ambiguous, anachronistic and abusive. What is concluded is the need for vigilance and activism on a global scale to protect the human rights of this particularly vulnerable group."--BOOK JACKET.