Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice / Edition 4

by Peter Bartlett, Ralph Sandland

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 illness.

With reference to recent cases and new legislation, Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland analyse the legal structure and functions of the mental health system, and the problems of characterizing mental health law. The legal issues described contain implied premises as to what it is to be a citizen, what the role of the state is for the vulnerable, and what the relative roles of law and medicine are in the regulation of control and deviance. Mental health law is an area of considerable legal and social complexity, and the authors challenge readers to question the system and the policies that have been developed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199661503
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/02/2014
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	712
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Peter Bartlett, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of Mental Health Law, University of Nottingham,Ralph Sandland, Associate Professor in Law, University of Nottingham

Peter Bartlett is Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of Mental Health Law in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham

Ralph Sandland is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham

Table of Contents

1. Conceptualising mental health law2. An overview of the contemporary mental health system3. Community care4. The Mental Capacity Act5. Deprivation of liberty under the Mental Capacity Act 20056. Civil detention under the Mental Health Act7. Policing mental disorder8. Mental disorder and criminal justice9. Medical treatment10. Control in the community11. Ending compulsion under the Mental Health Act12. Legal responses and advocacy for clients

Editorial Reviews

"This publication makes the law simple [and] should be essential reading for every mental health worker. I highly recommend it."
—Nursing Standard

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