Mental Health Law Policy and Practice
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Mental Health Law Policy and Practice by Peter Bartlett
Written by two of the country's leading specialists in mental health law, this book provides a detailed overview of the law and the socio-legal, historical, sociological, and cultural issues that surround it. Mental health law, at its heart, involves the forcible confinement and medication of some of society's most vulnerable people, and the authors look closely at the social issues raised by this, and the human rights of those who suffer from mental illness. With reference to recent cases and new legislation, Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland analyse the legal structure and functions of the mental health system, and the problems of characterizing mental health law. The legal issues described contain implied premises as to what it is to be a citizen, what the role of the state is for the vulnerable, and what the relative roles of law and medicine are in the regulation of control and deviance. Mental health law is an area of considerable legal and social complexity, and the authors challenge readers to question the system and the policies that have been developed.Peter Bartlett is Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of Mental Health Law at the University of Nottingham. He has written and contributed to a wide array of publications in the field including Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice 3/e (co-authored with Ralph Sandland, forthcoming from
OUP); Mental Disability and the European Convention on Human Rights (co-authored with O. Lewis and O. Thorold, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2006) and Mental Health Law: The Advocates' Manual 2/e (Toronto, Community Legal Education, 1988);
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854319418 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854319418 |
| Title | Mental Health Law Policy and Practice |
| Author | Peter Bartlett |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2001-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 526 |
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