Author

Publication

2003-06-03 - Hart Publishing

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

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  • Library of Congress Control Number2004266865
  • Goodreads4986401

Classifications

  • LCCKD3412 .P427 2003

Description

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

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  • Decisions and DilemmasPaperbackHart Publishing2003-06-03

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