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Genes spell danger: mental health service users/survivors, bioethics and control
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, WILSON Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(5), August 2002, pp.541-553.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article argues for debates about bioethics and disabled people to address and include the perspectives of psychiatric system survivors, and their concerns about psychiatry and bioethics. While genetic approaches to physical and sensory impairment can be seen to be concerned with physical and bodily conformity, genetic approaches to madness and mental distress that are gaining increasing power and official legitimacy, are also closely associated with regulating diversity, divergence and dissent in thinking and perceptions.
Mental health: care and support cannot co-exist with close control
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(2), December 1999, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The author argues that the Government must take a new approach towards its policy on public safety and mental health if it is to avoid a practical and political failure. Works with Open Services Project, a user-led research and development project, and is a long-term user of mental health services.