Mental illness
Subtitle: law and public policy
By: edited by Baruch A. Brody, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
Contributors: Brody, Baruch A.; Engelhardt, H. Tristram 1941-; Rice University.; University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Series: Philosophy and medicine ; v. 5
Publisher: D. Reidel; sold and distributed in the U.S.A. by Kluwer Boston
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Dordrecht, Holland; Boston; Hingham, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Insanity -- Jurisprudence; Mental health laws; Insane -- Commitment and detention; Mental disorders -- United States -- Legislation; Public policy -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Developed from a series of six lectures sponsored by Rice University and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the fall of 1976.