Neither bad nor mad : the competing discourses of psychiatry, law, and politics /

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This book looks at what happened when the government of Victoria, Australia, enacted special legislation to detain one person with a severe antisocial personality disorder on the grounds of his presumed dangerousness, despite the fact that he did not fit within the ordinary criteria of mental illnes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greig, Deidre N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2002.
Colección:Forensic focus ; 20.
Temas:
David, Garry, > 1972-1993.
David, Garry, > 1972-1993
Insanity (Law) > Australia > Victoria.
Dangerously mentally ill > Australia > Victoria.
Forensic psychiatry > Australia > Victoria.
Forensic Psychiatry > legislation & jurisprudence
Mentally Ill Persons > legislation & jurisprudence
Aliénation mentale > Australie > Victoria.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale dangereuses > Australie > Victoria.
Psychiatrie médico-légale > Australie > Victoria.
Pathology.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
Dangerously mentally ill
Forensic psychiatry
Insanity (Law)
Victoria
Case Reports
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; AUTHOR'S NOTE; PREFACE; 1 Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know; 2 A Macabre Dance to His Well known Tune The Pathway of Resistance; 3 A Flurry of Activity The Political Reaction to a Dangerous Person; 4 Bad or Mad The Credibility of Psychiatry; 5 A Malleable Boundary and the Bridging Manoeuvres; 6 The Supreme Court David versus Goliath; 7 The Social Audience and a Master Puppeteer; 8 The Prism of Dangerousness; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX.

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