The politics of mental health legislation
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The politics of mental health legislation
Clarendon Press, 1987
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Bibliography: p. [352]-365
Includes index
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Description
This study deals with civil aspects of legislation for the mentally ill, and particularly with the historically changing form of civil commitment procedures. Its main theme is the role of the broad political shift towards social interventionism in the early and mid-twentieth century in undermining formal legal safeguards designed to protect patients' civil liberties. The work is not narrowly legal in character; rather, it treats historical material on the emergence of legislation from a sociological perspective. The book spans the period from 1877 to 1983.
Table of Contents
- List of Statutes
- List of Cases
- Psychiatry, Law and Politics
- Mental Disorder and Legal Status
- Foundations of the Modern Mental Health System
- The Lunacy Act 1890: Lunacy, Liberty and the Rule of Law
- The Mental Treatment Act 1930: Psychiatric and Political Context
- Law in Transition
- Medical, Legal, and Political Alignements
- The Mental Health Act 1959: Mental Disorder in the Era of the Welfare State
- The Evolution of a New Legal Framework
- The Mental Health Act 1983: The New Legalism
- Bibliography
- Index "...ambitious, multilayered study...He illuminates our understanding of law, showing us how it looks to unbelievers...as well as to the faithful... Times Literary Supplement Readership: Lawyers working in welfare organizations
- health administrators
- academic lawyers.
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