Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law by Peay, Jill

Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781841133430)

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Format: Paperback
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Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law by Peay, Jill

Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law

$59.95
Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law by Peay, Jill

Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law

$59.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Jill Peay
ISBN-10: 1841133434
ISBN-13: 9781841133430
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2003
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d
By Jill Peay
By Jill Peay
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Jill Peay is a Reader in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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