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Mental Health Law Policy and Practice 3rd Edition

Author: Peter Bartlett; Ralph Sandland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199278275
Published In: March 2007
Format: Paperback , 736 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Well-structured account of mental health law incorporating helpful case studies, which helps to put the theory into practice
Includes analysis of the law from socio-legal, historical, sociological, and cultural perspectives, encouraging students to consider a wide range of viewpoints when reflecting on the ethical issues raised
Extensive bibliography enables students to access additional writings on mental health, benefiting their research for essays and exams
Supported by an accompanying website (Online Resource Centre) which provides updates and web links, keeping students in touch with developments

New to this edition

Analysis of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Draft Mental Health Bill
Online Resource Centre providing updates and web links

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, including the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland analyze 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. The text also includes discussion of renewed proposals for the reform of mental health law.

Online Resource Centre

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Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying mental health law as part of their LLB or LLM courses.

1: Conceptualising mental health law
2: Problems of definition
3: An overview of the contemporary mental health system
4: Admission to hospital
5: The process of civil confinement
6: Mental disorder and criminal justice
7: Treatment in hospital
8: Leaving hospital
9: Control, care, and community
10: Mental capacity (I): broad issues and basic concepts
11: The Mental Capacity Act 2005
12: Legal responses and advocacy for clients

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

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