Men in white coats : treatment under coercion / George Szmukler
By: Szmukler, George [author].
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xxvi, 245 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198801047.Subject(s): Involuntary treatment | Psychiatric hospital careGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC439 .S96 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012012 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
A practice with a very long history -- Some troubling observations about involuntary treatment -- The conventional grounds or involuntary treatment are highly problematic -- Challenges to the orthodoxy -- How mental health law discriminates against persons with mental illness -- A law that does not discriminate against people with mental illness -- On being able to make decisions and making decisions for others -- A new United Nations 'disability' convention -- Treatment pressures and 'coercion' -- Can we reduce the need for coercive interventions? -- 'Mental disorder' and public protection -- Emergencies, general medicine, 'community treatment orders' and 'psychiatric advance statements' -- Where does this take us?