Seminal Issues in Mental Health Law

Seminal Issues in Mental Health Law
ISBN-10
0754624196
ISBN-13
9780754624196
Category
Medical laws and legislation
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing
Author
Jill Peay

Description

In the complex and sometimes volatile area of mental health law, Seminal Issues in Mental Health Law provides ready access to key articles from around the world. Selected contents: Introduction PRINCIPLES N. Rose (1985) Unreasonable rights: mental illness and the limits of the law D.A. Treffert (1973) Dying with their rights on P. Fennell (1999) The third way in mental health policy: negative rights, positive rights and the convention United Nations (1991) Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and for the improvement of mental health care T.D. Campbell (1994) Mental health law: institutionalized discrimination D.B. Wexler (1992) Putting mental health into mental health law M. Tansella and P. Williams (1987) The Italian experience and its implications PROCESS D.L. Rosenhan (1973) On being sane in insane places G. Kullgren et al (1996) Practices and attitudes among Swedish psychiatrists regarding the ethics of compulsory treatment J. Monahan et al (1995) Coercion and commitment: understanding involuntary mental hospital admission K.R. Jamison (1995) Flights of the mind P. Bean (1986) Consent and treatment T. Grisso and P.S. Appelbaum (1995) The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study Ill Abilities of patients to consent to psychiatric and medical treatments B.G. Link et al (1999) Public conceptions of mental illness: labels, causes dangerousness and social distance TRENDS J. Dawson et al (2003) Ambivalence about community treatment orders R.M. Gordon (1993) Out to pasture: a case for the retirement of Canadian mental health legislation G. Richardson (2002) Autonomy, guardianship and mental disorder R. Porter (2004) Is mental illness inevitably stigmatizing? P. Bartlett (2003) The test of compulsion in mental health law: capacity, therapeutic benefit and dangerousness as possible critieria R.P. Bentall (2003) The boundaries of madness NAME INDEX.

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