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International Human Rights And Comparative Mental Disability Law: The Universal Factors, Michael L. Perlin
International Human Rights And Comparative Mental Disability Law: The Universal Factors, Michael L. Perlin
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An examination of comparative mental disability law reveals that there are at least five dominant, universal, core factors that must be considered carefully in any evaluation of the key question of whether international human rights standards have been violated. Each of these five factors is a reflection of the shame that the worldwide state of mental disability law brings to all of us who work in this field. Each is tainted by the pervasive corruption of sanism that permeates all of mental disability law. Each reflects a blinding pretextuality that contaminates legal practice in this area.
These are the factors …