Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice

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

Mental Health Law

Policy and Practice

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

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Oxford University Press
22 October 2013

Medical & healthcare law; Mental health law

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 legal and 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 case law and statutes 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.

By: Peter Bartlett (Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of Mental Health Law University of Nottingham), Ralph Sandland (Associate Professor in Law, University of Nottingham)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 4th Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 245mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199661503
ISBN 10: 0199661502
Pages: 712
Publication Date: 22 October 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Conceptualising mental health law 2: An overview of the contemporary mental health system 3: Community care 4: The Mental Capacity Act 5: Deprivation of liberty under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 6: Civil detention under the Mental Health Act 7: Policing mental disorder 8: Mental disorder and criminal justice 9: Medical treatment 10: Control in the community 11: Ending compulsion under the Mental Health Act 12: Legal responses and advocacy for clients

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