Human Rights

Issues Law Med. 2010 Fall;26(2):91-195. This article completes a study that the author foreshadowed in his previous articles. The Western moral theory that defends the inalienable right to life and liberty–and that therefore forbids all forms of suicide and slavery–is now well known to the author’s readers. What is not well known is an answer […]

Priebe S, Bogic M, Ashcroft R, Franciskovic T, Galeazzi GM, Kucukalic A, Lecic-Tosevski D, Morina N, Popovski M, Roughton M, Schützwohl M, Ajdukovic D.Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts’ and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UKSoc Sci Med. 2010 Oct 30. [Epub ahead of print] War experiences […]

Meffert SM, Musalo K, Abdo AO, Alla OA, Elmakki YO, Omer AA, Yousif S, Metzler TJ, Marmar CR.Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA. Med Confl Surviv. 2010 Apr-Jun;26(2):160-72. Thousands of Sudanese refugees have fled to Cairo, Egypt in the wake of Sudanese civil conflicts. Sudanese refugees were evaluated with respect to […]

Gesundheit B, Ash N, Blazer S, Rivkind AI.Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.Am J Bioeth. 2009 Oct;9(10):40-2. With the escalation of terrorism worldwide in recent years, situations arise in which the perpetration of violence and the defense of human rights come into conflict, creating serious ethical problems. The Geneva Convention provides guidelines for the medical treatment […]

Johnson K, Scott J, Rughita B, Kisielewski M, Asher J, Ong R, Lawry L.Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.JAMA. 2010 Aug 4;304(5):553-62. CONTEXT: Studies from the Eastern Region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have provided anecdotal reports of sexual violence. This study offers a population-based assessment of the prevalence of […]

Halvorsen JØ, Kagee A.Centre on Violence, Traumatic Stress and Suicide Prevention, Trondheim University Hospital, Schwachs gate 1, N-7030 Trondheim, Norway. J Interpers Violence. 2010 Jun;25(6):989-1005. The present study investigated potential predictors of the psychological sequelae of torture among 143 former political activists who had been detained during the apartheid era in South Africa.

Weißflog G, Klinitzke G, Hinz A.Universität Leipzig, Department für Psychische Gesundheit, Selbstständige Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie, Leipzig.Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol. 2010 Jun 16. PURPOSE: Political persecution was and is a reality in our world. The study investigated effects of political imprisonment in the former German Democratic Republic on the current health-related quality […]

Mayers P, Keet N, Winkler G, Flisher AJ.Division of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa.Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2010 Jan;56(1):60-73. BACKGROUND: Sedation, seclusion or restraint are recognized methods of containing a person experiencing an acute psychotic episode with behavioural disturbance which has […]

Steel Z, Bateman Steel CR, Silove D.Centre for Population Mental Health Research and Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia.J Trauma Stress. 2009 Sep 9. Since World War II, a comprehensive body of international law has developed to protect and promote human rights. Three generations of rights can […]

Jacobson N.Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Department of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Qual Health Res. 2009 Nov;19(11):1536-47. In this grounded theory analysis I sought to understand dignity violation in health care and to explore the context in which such violations take place. I found that dignity violation in health care occurs through processes of […]