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Treatment without consent : law, psychiatry, and the treatment of mentally disordered people since 1845
- Title
- Treatment without consent : law, psychiatry, and the treatment of mentally disordered people since 1845 / Phil Fennell.
- Author
- Fennell, Phil.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
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Details
- Description
- x, 356 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Phil Fennell's study traces the history of the treatment of mental disorder in Britain over the last 150 years. It focuses specifically on treatment without consent, analysing the provisions of legislation under which it has been authorised. This book examines the range of different forms which treatment interventions have taken: physical and mechanical restraint, seclusion, routine and emergency chemical sedation, force feeding, psychosurgery and shock therapy. Controversial aspects of present-day treatments, like Electro Convulsive Therapy and neuroleptic medication, are examined, and the vexed issue of sterilisation of people with learning disabilities is discussed.
- Phil Fennell investigates the way perceptions of consent have changed over the period. He shows how, well into the second half of this century, it was widely believed that relatives could consent to the treatment of a mentally disordered person. This contrasts with present-day statutory and common law rules, and the recommendations of the Law Commission for a new legal regime to cover the treatment of people without mental capacity.
- Series Statement
- Social ethics and policy series
- Uniform Title
- Social ethics and policy series
- Subject
- Board of Control (Great Britain)
- Law Commission (Great Britain)
- Lunacy Commission (Great Britain)
- Mental health laws > Great Britain > History
- Informed consent (Medical law) > Great Britain > History
- Mental illness > Treatment
- Informed consent (Medical law)
- Mental Disorders > therapy
- Informed Consent
- Informed Consent > history
- Mental Competency
- Mental illness > Treatment
- Mental health laws
- Einwilligung
- Einwilligungsfähigkeit
- Geistige Behinderung
- Ärztliche Behandlung
- Psychiatrische patiënten
- Behandeling
- Informed consent
- Santé mentale > Droit > Histoire. > Grande-Bretagne
- Consentement éclairé (droit médical) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire
- Geschichte 1845-1996
- United Kingdom
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre/Form
- Legislation
- History
- Lois et codes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-345) and index.
- Contents
- 1. 1845-1853: The Birth of the Lunacy Commission -- 2. 1853-1880: The Triumph of Non-Restraint? -- 3. Chemical Restraint -- 4. 1880-1913: The Return of Restraint -- 5. Surgical Treatment and Consent -- 6. The Board of Control and Sterilisation of 'The Unfit' -- 7. The Board of Control and the Mental Treatment Act 1930 -- 8. The Board of Control and Treatment for Mental Disorder, 1913-1930 -- 9. The Age of Experimentation: The Board of Control and Treatment for Mental Disorder, 1930-1959 -- 10. The Age of Psychopharmacology -- 11. The Mental Health Act Commission and the Mental Health Act 1983 -- 12. Treatment Without Consent Under the 1983 Act -- 13. Emergency Sedation, Seclusion and Restraint in Contemporary Psychiatry -- 14. Treatment of Incapable Patients Without Consent Under Common Law -- 15. Codifying Clinical Authority -- 16. Informal Compulsion: Treating Children Without Consent.
- ISBN
- 0415077877
- 9780415077873
- LCCN
- 95021254
- OCLC
- ocm32665244
- 32665244
- SCSB-2078939
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library