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Decisions and dilemmas working with mental health law /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Portland, Or. ; Oxford :
Hart,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 justifie. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 217 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-214) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1847311008 (electronic bk.) 9781847311009 (electronic bk.) |