Advocacy and Participation in Mental Health Cases: Realisable Rights or Pipe-Dreams?
This article discusses Australian experiences of mental health clients, legal advocates and other stakeholders in the mental health review system. We review forms of advocacy, the reactions to these, and the contribution lawyers make to protecting rights within this field. Based on our fieldwork we suggest a mixed model of advocacy, one that includes legal representation that goes beyond simple 'following instructions', but also self-advocacy, systemic advocacy and mobilisation of support networks. We suggest that Jan Brakel was right to recently call for a re-conceptualisation of mental health advocacy, and indicate ways this might be achieved.
The Proliferation of Human Rights in Global Health Governance
As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, threats to global public health continue to proliferate. New and novel risks to health have emerged consistently over the past 30 years. Moreover, our shrinking world now allows health threats to spread more quickly than ever before. Given these realities, efforts to protect and improve global health must be expansive, flexible, and able to take into account the variety of circumstances that may imperil good health. These efforts also must consider the multiple levels and varying contexts in which laws, policies, and other factors govern global health and affect health outcomes.
Heidegger On the Metaphor and Philosophy
to more logical analysis, quite crowd it out. His thought in the end is word-play and, in far too great a part, metaphor-play; and it is obvious that he has opted for poetry against serious and positive philosophic explanation. It need not be with disapproval, however, that one takes Heidegger’s work to be dominantly metaphorical. One could see it as a charging of the philosophic scene with new ways of understanding things, offering material to others for more careful elaboration, organization, and explication. A fairly recent study of Heidegger’s ’aesthetics’, for example, speaks admiringly and positively of the metaphorical weight of his ’Origin of the Work of Art’ :1 I