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Decisions and dilemmas : working with mental health law / Jill Peay.

Title: Decisions and dilemmas : working with mental health law / Jill Peay.
Author: Peay, Jill
Publication: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2003.

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Description

xiv, 217 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In the field of mental health law, we entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost gravity - decisions about compulsory medical treatment and the loss of liberty - to doctors and approved social workers. Yet, how do these non-lawyers make decisions where the legitimacy of those decisions derives from law? This book examines the practical, ethical and legal terrain of duo-disciplinary decision-making: given identical cases, what dilemmas do psychiatrists and approved social workers encounter, do they reach the same or similar decisions and, most critically, how are those decisions justified? At a time of ferment in mental health law this book, through its narrative format, aids a better understanding of the dilemmas posed."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.

Processing Action (note)

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Contents

1. Robert Draper: a case for admission? -- 2. Clive Wright: a case for discharge? -- 3. Hazel Robinson: a case for compulsory treatment? -- 4. Decision-making research: context and content -- 5. Legal and policy context -- 6. Conclusions.

ISBN

1841133434 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library