The first specialized comprehensive publication on topics that relate to epilepsy and the law. It provides contributions from international experts, both medical and legal, and reviews standards of clinical practice and issues relating to driving, the criminal justice system, discrimination, and professional privilege between doctors and their patients in the care of those with epilepsy.
Great importance is given to aggressiveness and violence, in relation to mental disorder.
The third section deals with insanity defense. This topic is controversial, and was extensively debated through the nineties. This volume also highlights contradictory views on many ethical and legal issues, including patients' rights in various countries, the right to receive and refuse treatment, patient's advocacy, and their right to access of clinical records. Dealing with medico-legal issues . . . Medicine and Law is published on a quarterly basis.