Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill

by Elyn R. Saks

It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity. If so, our treatment of the mentally ill suggests that American society is inhumane: swinging between overintervention and utter neglect, we sometimes force extreme treatments on those who do not want them, and at other times discharge mentally ill patients who do want treatment without providing adequate resources for their care in the community...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226733971
• ISBN13: 9780226733975
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"