Going Comprehensive: Anatomy of an Initiative That Worked -- CCRP in the South Bronx

Traces the story of the Comprehensive Community Revitalization Program (CCRP), a model approach to neighborhood redevelopment in the South Bronx that operated in concert with local nonprofit community development corporations

Summary Assessment Report: The Planning Phase of the Rebuilding Communities Initiative

Evaluates the planning and implementation of a multiyear community change initiative in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Denver, and Detroit

Race and mental health : there is more to race than racism

Some minority ethnic groups in England and Wales have higher rates of admission for mental illness and more adverse pathways to care. Are the resulting accusations of institutional racism within psychiatry justified

Mental illness is different and ignoring its differences profits nobody

Szmukler, Daw and Dawson have produced a detailed and carefully worded proposal for a new approach fusing mental health and capacity legislation. In practice their proposal abolishes separate mental health legislation. It aims to ensure that compulsory care for the mentally ill is provided, when needed, according to the same principles as in severe disabling physical disorders (e.g. toxic confusion states, acute head injury, dementia). Their proposal derives from two strongly held and clearly presented principles – respect for the autonomy of the psychiatric patient and removal of what they consider the stigmatising discrimination between mental and physical illness. Capacity becomes the threshold for considering any compulsory detention or treatment

ALLEGORICAL NARRATIVES OF THE VIETNAM WAR

In this article, three novels of the mid-1970s, published at the end of the Vietnam War – Jonathan Rubin’s The Barking Deer (1974), Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War (1975), and Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers (1974) - are analyzed as examples of allegorical narrative, whose theoretical aspects are initially discussed. It is argued that the peculiarities of the Vietnam War (morally and politically suspect and even militarily ambiguous) made some authors attempt to represent it indirectly and obliquely through varied narrative strategies like allegory and fantasy, rather than the realism of classic war narratives

The ethics of child participation in significantly risky non-therapeutic research

The principles which can justify significantly risky nontherapeutic research on children are a combination of: (1) direct or indirect benefits to the child participants now and/or in the future (and these benefits need not necessarily be medical, they can also be socioeconomic or otherwise non-medical); (2) a high standard of informed consent that fundamentally focuses on the child participant's understanding (and capacity for understanding) of relevant features of informed consent. Researchers, parents and guardians, as well as child participants themselves, have different roles and obligations towards one another. This is not an issue of seeking to find excuses to expose children to risk, but rather an issue of seeking the least risky and most ethical way to do so if and when required by public health emergencies or to achieve directly beneficial scientific breakthroughs