Research Catalog

Title

International human rights and comparative mental disability law : cases and materials / Michael L. Perlin ... [et al.].

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

Perlin, Michael L., 1946-

Description

xxiii, 1021 p.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Carolina Academic Press law casebook series

Uniform Title

Carolina Academic Press law casebook series

Subject

• Human Rights > legislation & jurisprudence
• Commitment of Mentally Ill > legislation & jurisprudence
• Persons with Mental Disabilities > legislation & jurisprudence
• People with mental disabilities > Civil rights
• Mental health laws
• Insanity (Law)
• Mentally ill > Commitment and detention
• Human rights
• Commitment of Mentally Ill
• Human Rights

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Constitutional mental disability law -- 3. Overview of international human rights law -- 4. On sanism and pretextuality -- 5. Mental disability law in a socio-political context : the role of institutional psychiatry in the suppression of political dissent -- 6. Mental disability law in an international human rights context -- 7. Comparative mental disability law -- 8. Universal factors -- 9. Trends in comparative mental health legislation -- 10. A global perspective on mental disability rights -- Other disability rights issues.

ISBN

1594602107 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2006924481

OCLC

• 71195376
• SCSB-10230392

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library