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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Greig, Deidre N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2002.
Series:Forensic focus ; 20.
Subjects:
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.
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