| Description |
vii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
A short history of mental health / Ian Shaw -- Tracing the development of the Mental Health Act Commission and its predecessors / Jeffrey Cohen -- Exploring visiting activities of the Commission / Ian Shaw, Hugh Middleton, and Martin Chamberlain -- The reform of the Mental Health Act / Jeffrey Cohen -- Socially determined perceptions of risk are reflected in the decision to request a second opinion appointed doctor's visit / Hugh Middleton and Ian Shaw -- To treat or not to treat? Should the treatability criterion for those with psychopathic disorder be abandoned? / Conor Duggan -- Law, regulation, and the Mental Health Act Commission / Simon Boys and Michael J. Gunn -- Reforming the Mental Health Act : a successor to the Mental Health Act Commission / Jeffrey Cohen |
| Summary |
"In Understanding Treatment without Consent, the authors examine the work of the Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC), established to ensure the care and rights of people subjected to the various sections of the 1983 Mental Health Act." "The book emerges from a Department of Health funded research project, which analysed the data held by the MHAC and informed the government's review of the Mental health Act. The authors include that analysis and other issues that arose from the project in the pages of this text, but their aim is to go beyond that research project, and to offer a broader exploration of mental health provision in both historical and contemporary contexts, discussing whether mental health reforms have learned the lessons of history."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Mental Health Act Commission.
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Involuntary treatment -- Law and legislation -- England.
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Mental health laws -- England.
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Mental Health Services -- legislation & jurisprudence.
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Mental Health Services -- organization & administration.
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Government Agencies -- organization & administration.
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Health Care Reform -- legislation & jurisprudence.
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Patient Rights -- legislation & jurisprudence.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
| Author |
Middleton, Hugh, 1950-
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Cohen, Jeffrey, 1949-
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| LC no. |
2007011095 |
| ISBN |
9780754618867 (hbk.) |
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0754618862 (hbk.) |
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