Decisions and Dilemmas
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: June 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781841133430
Subjects: English law: criminal law; English law: public health & safety law; Mental Health Services; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Mentally Disabled Persons; Mental Health; Law / Mental Health; Great Britain; General; Commitment of Mentally Ill; legislation & jurisprudence
Description: In the field of mental health law,we entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost gravity - decisions about compulsory medical treatment and the loss of liberty - to doctors and approved social workers. Yet, how do these non-lawyers make decisions where the legitimacy of those decisions derives from law? This book examines the practical, ethical and legal terrain of duo-disciplinary decision-making: given identical cases, what dilemmas do psychiatrists and approved social workers encounter, do they reach the same or similar decisions and, most critically, how are those decisions justified? At a time of ferment in mental health law this book, through its narrative format, aids a better understanding of the dilemmas posed