Archive: 2023

Flavia Bustreo and Rajat Khosla According to the recently released Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000 to 2020, global progress in reducing maternal mortality stagnated between 2000-2015 and worsened in some regions between 2016 and 2020.[1] Overall…

Gautam Gulati and Brendan D. Kelly   On 5 October 2021, Ernest L. Johnson, a 61-year-old man, was executed in Missouri, United States. Johnson’s crime was heinous: in 1994 he killed three people in a convenience store. No words can describe the…

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 161-169  PDF Peter MacSorley, Sarah Gordon, Tracey Gardiner, and Giles Newton-Howes Abstract Traditionally, teaching in psychiatry has had a passing focus on human rights. Against this backdrop, the aim of this study was…

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 149-160  PDF Chris Maylea Abstract In introducing the Mental Health and Wellbeing Bill of 2022 into Parliament in Victoria, Australia, the state government claimed that the new legislation “delivers on the vision for…

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 223-226  PDF Jacqueline Bhabha Irregular Migrants and the Right to Health, Stefano Angeleri (Cambridge University Press, 2022) At the start of the 2022–2023 academic year, a group of Harvard T.H. Chan School of…

Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 213-221  PDF Geffen Treiman Abstract Many individuals with disabilities utilize adult-sized changing tables to take care of their toileting needs with the help of a caregiver.[1] These tables are not explicitly required…