Almost a Revolution : Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change

Name: Almost a Revolution
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195068801
Price: 15500 KES
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ISBN: 9780195068801

by Paul S. Appelbaum

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0195068807

ISBN-13 9780195068801

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 1st, 1994

Print length 248 Pages

Weight 499 grams

Dimensions 24.40 x 16.30 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Disability: social aspects Public health & safety law Torts / Delicts

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This is an overview of the major mental health law reforms of the last generation and their consequences. Appelbaum analyses legal reforms related to involuntary hospitalisation, liability of professionals for violent acts committed by their patients, the right to refuse treatment and the insanity defence.

The major mental health reforms of the last generation in the U.S.A. have given rise to much discussion and often heated debate; but have they actually produced any real changes? This book is the first overview of this controversial subject - and the author''s appraisal of the consequences of these reforms is surprising. Changes which were originally aimed at making it more difficult to hospitalize and treat people with mental illness, and easier to punish them, have actually resulted in far less change than was predicted or intended. This stimulating book argues that, when the law contradicted commonsense ideas of how to deal with the mentally ill, it was bent or ignored, whether by judges, medical professionals, or family members.

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