图书基本信息

Treatment Without Consent : Law, Psychiatry and the Treatment of Mentally Disordered People Since 1845
作者： Phil Fennell
ISBN13： 9780415077873
类型： 精装(精装书)
语种： 英语（English）
出版日期： 1995-12-21
出版社： Routledge
页数： 368
重量（克）： 612
尺寸： 21.59 x 13.97 x 2.3876 cm

商品简介

Traces the history of the treatment of mental disorder over last 150 years with particular focus on treatment without consent. Provides a table of legal sources and an extensive bibliography.

书评与摘要

Phil Fennell's tightly argued study traces the history of treatment of mental disorder in Britain over the last 150 years. He focuses specifically on treatment of mental disorder without consent within psychiatric practice, and on the legal position which has allowed it.
Treatment Without Consent examines many controversial areas: the use of high-strength drugs and Electro Convulsive Therapy, physical restraint and the vexed issue of the sterilisation of people with learning disabilities. Changing notions of consent are discussed, from the common perception that relatives are able to consent on behalf of the patient, to present-day statutory and common law rules, and recent Law Commission recommendations.
This work brings a complex and intriguing area to life; it includes a table of legal sources and an extensive bibliography. It is essential reading for historians, lawyers and all those who are interested in the treatment of mental disorder.