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Mental Health Law and Human Rights

Perlin, Michael L., Szeli, Éva·2012·Mental Health and Human Rights
DOI 10.1093/med/9780199213962.003.0004
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Michael Perlin and Eva Szeli consider the relationship between human rights and the law, and specifically, the relatively recent meeting of mental health law and human rights law. They note the neglect of human rights of people with disabilities for decades by international human rights protection agencies. Although recent political, legal, social, and cultural developments have helped shift the environment so as to support a movement that ‘ extends’ rights to this population, these rights are often ignored or granted only on paper. They argue the cause is sanism: an irrational prejudice akin to other prejudices of racism, sexism, homophobia, and ethnic bigotry, that infects jurisprudence and lawyering practices, that is largely invisible and socially acceptable, based predominantly upon stereotype, myth, superstition, and deindividualization, is sustained and perpetuated by ‘ordinary common sense’ (OCS) and heuristic reasoning in an unconscious response to events in everyday life and in the legal process. They issue the challenge to give life to international human rights for this population.

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Authors
Perlin, M. L., & Szeli, É.
ORCID
Perlin, Michael L.
Venue
Mental Health and Human Rights
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
2012-06
Pages
80-94
DOI
10.1093/med/9780199213962.003.0004
OpenAlex
W2476914678
Cited by
10
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0
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
3.44
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disability Rights and Representation
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Social Sciences › Law › Legal Rights and Human Rights
Keywords
mental health law, human rights, people with disabilities, sanism, prejudice, international human rights protection, disability rights, deindividuation, heuristic reasoning

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