Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice

by Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199661502
• ISBN13: 9780199661503
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 712 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"