Article 12: The Right to Be Heard

The right to be heard: independent mental health advocacy services in England.

■ Good quality IMHA services are easy to find and contact, and have the confidence and trust of the service user. They enable the person to express their views and be active participants in their care and treatment under the Mental Health Act. ■ IMHA services need to be commissioned in an informed way: investment needs to match local need and potential demand, and should be grounded in an under...

Shouting to Be Heard in Advertising

Advertising competes for scarce consumer attention, so more profitable advertisers send more messages to break through the others’ clutter. Multiple equilibria can arise: more messages in aggregate induce more "shouting to be heard", dissipating profit. Equilibria can involve a small range of loud shouters or large range of quiet whisperers. All advertisers prefer there to be less shouting. The...

Critical Study of Right to be wrong From the point of view ofcollectivists, utilitarians, and virtuosos

circuit right discourse is one of the most common theories in the contemporary period about regulating human social relations. The formation of this course of thought and the exhibition of a unidimensional understanding of the concept of right in the West is the result of socio-political changes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was during this period that thinkers’ response to th...

The Right to Be Unobserved

T here are two ways to define privacy, and neither involves the squishiness that begins “a reasonable expectation of ... .” The first is what privacy means as a civil construct—what associate justice Louis Brandeis described as “the right to be left alone—the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.”1 The second is what privacy means at its operational core: the...

The right to be fat.