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A third wave not a third way? New Labour human rights and mental health in historical context
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Carpenter, Mick (2009) A third wave not a third way? New Labour human rights and mental health in historical context. Social Policy and Society, Vol.8 (No.2). pp. 215-230. doi:10.1017/S1474746408004740 ISSN 1474-7464.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746408004740
Abstract
This historically situated, UK-based review of New Labour’s human rights and mental health policy following the 1998 Human Rights Act (HRA) and 2007 Mental Health Act (MHA), draws on Klug’s identification of three waves of human rights. These occurred around the American and French Revolutions, after World War II, and following the collapse of state communism in 1989, and the article assesses impacts on mental health policy up to and including the New Labour era. It critiques current equality and rights frameworks in mental health and indicates how they might be brought into closer alignment with third wave principles.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Labour Party (Great Britain), Great Britain. Human Rights Act 1998, Great Britain. Mental Health Act 2007, Mental health policy -- Great Britain, Human rights -- Great Britain | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Policy and Society | ||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 1474-7464 | ||||
Official Date: | April 2009 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.8 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 215-230 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S1474746408004740 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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