Mental health law : policy and practice /
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Author / Creator: | Bartlett, Peter. |
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Edition: | 3rd ed. |
Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. |
Description: | xlvi, 687 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Mental health laws -- Great Britain. Insanity (Law) -- Jurisprudence -- Great Britain. Insanity (Law) Mental health laws. Great Britain. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6371936 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Conceptualising mental health law
- 2. Problems of definition
- 3. An overview of the contemporary mental health system
- 4. Admission to hospital
- 5. The process of civil confinement
- 6. Mental disorder and criminal justice
- 7. Treatment in hospital
- 8. Leaving hospital
- 9. Control, care, and community
- 10. Mental capacity (I): broad issues and basic concepts
- 11. The Mental Capacity Act 2005
- 12. Legal responses and advocacy for clients