… to coercion in psychiatric facilities was (and still is) the meta-level of human rights and those
… protocol to the convention on human rights and biomedicine concerning the protection of …

The author discusses a pragmatic approach to decisions about coercive treatment that is …
This approach can reconcile psychiatry’s perspective with the UN Convention on the Rights …

… human rights. By way of introduction, we describe general legal principles regarding coercion
in psychiatry… the major formal legislation relating to biomedical research, DARER, does not …

… use of coercion requires legal and ethical justifications. In this article, we map out the ethical
elements used in the literature to justify or reject the use of coercive … , more human rights-…

… psychiatry to adopt human rights discourse into its training, practice and language, to champion
the goals of mental health … worth of every human being and minimising coercion. In order …

… the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation
… Organization (WHO) human rights standards,1 recent case-law from the European Court of …

… , followed by one dealing with the rights of a patient detained for involuntary treatment in
1983, one more recommendation on psychiatry and human rights in 1994, and the most recent …

… The use of coercion is an issue that has accompanied psychiatry throughout its history as an
ethical challenge.1 Coercion is not unique to psychiatry … However, only psychiatry (and to a …

… European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (… human rights treaty of the
twenty-first century, in force since 2008, … of the use of coercive measures in the field of psychiatry, …

… Coercive measures in psychiatry and human rights Coercive measures are reportedly used
in mental health services to protect “patients” from the risk of harm to themselves or to others. …