Coercive care : the ethics of choice in health and medicine

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Coercive care : the ethics of choice in health and medicine

Torbjörn Tännsjö

Routledge, 1999

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Description

Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines philosophical analysis with comparative studies of social policy and law in a large number of industrialized countries.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Somatic health care 3 Preventive health care 4 Infectious diseases 5 Mental illness 6 Forensic psychiatry 7 Foetal/maternal conflicts 8 Coercion in the social services 9 Conclusion

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