The Bioethics And
Human Rights
Lab
The BEAHR Lab is led by Dr. Lisa Cosgrove
Research
The BEAHR Lab conducts research that broadly aims to shift the current biomedical paradigm and integrate a human rights approach in mental health policies and practices. Specifically, our research addresses 1) the ethical and medical-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of academic-industry relationships and 2) the ways in which commercialized science reinforces epistemic injustice and undermines an appreciation for the moral and political context of physical and emotional suffering.
Latest Publications
News & Events
Medscape: DSM-5-TR Panel Members Received $14M in Undisclosed Industry Funding
Read the Medscape article featuring our recently published research "Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis."
STAT: Contributors to psychiatry’s bible, the DSM-5, got $14 million from industry
Read the STAT article featuring our recently published research "Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis."
Research collaborations
The Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice is a multi-institutional platform dedicated to the study of rights-based approaches to mental health law, policy, and practices.
The Centre serves as an accountability hub, using human rights discourse to challenge and critique the status quo in mental health. As an independent and multi-disciplinary collective of scholars and activists, our aim is to promote a transformative and decolonised vision of mental health that centers the lived experience of directly-impacted people.
