Human Rights and Social Justice : Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions

by Joseph Wronka

ISBN13: 9781412938730

ISBN10: 1412938732

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2007-12-11

Publisher(s): SAGE Publications, Inc

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Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions has a unique perspective that views human rights as the bedrock of social justice. It provides a clear blueprint how human rights and social justice concerns can serve as a conceptual framework for policy and practice interventions among the helping and health professions.

List of Tables, Practice Illustrations, and Figures	p. xi
Foreword	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Etymological Roots of Social Justice	p. xx
Some Personal Experiences	p. xxi
Plan of the Book	p. xxiii
Life as the Profession	p. xxv
Acknowledgments	p. xxix
Human Rights as the Bedrock of Social Justice	p. 1
Introduction	p. 5
Rationale for This Work	p. 6
Toward the Creation of a Human Rights Culture	p. 9
The Importance of Words	p. 10
Information as Power	p. 11
The Vulnerability of the Human Condition	p. 11
Reluctance of Governments and Other Powerful Entities	p. 12
The Importance of Socialization	p. 13
Moving From the Mind to the Heart to the Body	p. 14
Five Core Notions of Human Rights	p. 16
Human Dignity	p. 16
Nondiscrimination	p. 17
Civil and Political Rights	p. 17
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights	p. 18
Solidarity Rights	p. 18
The Interdependence and Indivisibility of Rights	p. 20
Social Justice as Struggle	p. 24
Sisyphus as the Prototypical Human Rights Defender	p. 25
Some Initial Provisos for the Human Rights Defender	p. 26
The Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention	p. 27
The Hypocrisy of Governments	p. 28
The Sanitization of Oppression	p. 28
Narrow Definitions of Human Rights	p. 30
Demonization of the Other	p. 31
Human Rights Documents as Human Creations	p. 32
Cultural Relativism as Possible Pretext	p. 34
Summary	p. 35
Questions for Discussion	p. 36
Activities/Actions	p. 39
Notes	p. 41
Before and Beyond the Universal Declaration of Human Rights	p. 43
Toward a History of the Idea of Human Rights	p. 44
Cultures as Reflective of Human Choice	p. 44
A History of Human Rights From the Humanistic Tradition	p. 46
Human Rights Documents as Historical-Philosophical Compromises	p. 48
The Human Rights Triptych	p. 50
Antiquity	p. 53
The Middle Ages	p. 56
The Renaissance	p. 57
The Age of Enlightenment	p. 58
The Age of Industrialization	p. 60
Select Input Prior to the Endorsement of the Universal Declaration	p. 62
Select Major International Human Rights Initiatives	p. 65
Select Core Principles of Some Major Human Rights Documents	p. 67
The UN Charter	p. 67
Conventions With Monitoring Committees That the United States Has Ratified	p. 68
Conventions With Monitoring Committees That the United States Has Signed	p. 73
Two Select Timely Human Rights Documents	p. 82
Other Human Rights Regimes	p. 85
Implementation	p. 87
Country and Thematic Reports	p. 88
Reports on Compliance With Human Rights Conventions	p. 91
World Conferences	p. 94
Summary	p. 96
Questions for Discussion	p. 96
Activities/Actions	p. 100
Notes	p. 102
Building From the Foundation	p. 105
An Advanced Generalist/Public Health Model and Whole Population Approaches to Human Rights and Social Justice	p. 107
A Helping and Health Profession Model of Intervention	p. 107
Levels of Intervention	p. 109
Macro Level	p. 109
Mezzo Level	p. 110
Micro Level	p. 110
Meta-Macro Level	p. 111
Meta-Micro Level	p. 113
The Struggle to Implement Levels of Intervention	p. 114
Education Toward the Creation of a Human Rights Culture	p. 120
Select Examples and Resources	p. 121
Commemorating Major International Days	p. 125
Proclamations, Resolutions, Declarations, and Bills	p. 128
Declarations and Bills	p. 131
Providing NGO Input	p. 136
The Arts, Human Rights, and Social Justice	p. 141
The Role of the Media	p. 143
Other Artistic Venues	p. 143
Other Select Direct Nonviolent Strategies	p. 146
Summary	p. 149
Questions for Discussion	p. 151
Activities/Actions	p. 154
Notes	p. 155
At-Risk and Clinical Social Action and Service Strategies Toward the Creation of a Human Rights Culture	p. 157
The Helping and Health Professions as an At-Risk Group	p. 160
Preventing an Abuse of Power	p. 160
Having Ethics Codes Consistent With Human Rights Principles	p. 162
Incorporating Client Voices in Policy and Treatment	p. 163
Business and Human Rights	p. 164
Humanistic Administration	p. 167
Toward an Alternative to a Major Managerial Style	p. 168
The Need for Nondiscrimination in the Workplace	p. 170
Social Entrepreneurship	p. 172
Characteristics of Social Entrepreneurs	p. 174
Grant Writing	p. 175
Dealing With a Limited Definition of the Problem	p. 176
The Importance of Sincerity	p. 177
A Basic Format for Grant Writing	p. 178
Principles for the Protection of Persons With Mental Illness	p. 180
Principles of Medical Ethics	p. 183
Toward a Socially Just Human Rights-Based Approach to Clinical Practice	p. 187
Ways of Helping That Can Obfuscate Healing	p. 188
The Priority of Human Experience	p. 188
Implications of the Etymology of Therapy	p. 189
Human Rights Principles That Have Implications for the Therapeutic Relationship	p. 190
Some Words on the Meta-Micro Level	p. 196
Summary	p. 197
Questions for Discussion	p. 198
Activities/Actions	p. 201
Notes	p. 203
A Human Rights/Social Justice Approach to Research-Action Projects for the Helping and Health Professions	p. 205
Human Rights Documents as a Means of Defining the Problem	p. 206
The Challenge of the Interdependency of Rights	p. 208
The Human Dimension Behind Knowledge	p. 209
The Researcher as Searcher of Truth	p. 212
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Project	p. 212
Toward a Culture of Informed Consent	p. 214
Generic Points in the Construction of an Ethics Consent Form	p. 216
Quantitative Research	p. 217
Qualitative Research	p. 228
Toward Implementing Rights of Indigenous Peoples	p. 229
Student Projects Integrating Human Rights Into Qualitative Studies	p. 230
Research Leading to Social Action	p. 231
On Writing	p. 233
On Speaking	p. 237
Using the Media	p. 239
Examples of a Public Testimony and Presentation	p. 240
Summary	p. 246
Questions for Discussion	p. 247
Activities/Actions	p. 250
Notes	p. 251
Ground Rules	p. 253
Toward the Paradoxical Commandments	p. 253
Some Ground Rules for Social Action and Service	p. 257
Conclusion	p. 266
Questions for Discussion	p. 267
Activity/Action	p. 273
Note	p. 273
Annotated Media Resources	p. 275
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights	p. 281
Portions of Select Articles From Select Major International Documents Following the Universal Declaration of Human Rights	p. 287
Glossary	p. 291
References	p. 297
Index	p. 309
About the Author	p. 335
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