Recognition rights, mental health consumers and reconstructive cultural semantics
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Recognition rights, mental health consumers and reconstructive cultural semantics
INTRODUCTION Those in mental health-related consumer movements have made clear their demands for humane treatment and basic civil rights, an end to stigma and discrimination, and a chance to participate in their own recovery. But theorizing about the politics of recognition, 'recognition rights' and epistemic justice, suggests that they also have a stake in the broad cultural meanings associate...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1747-5341
DOI: 10.1186/1747-5341-7-6