Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice

Peter Bartlett; Ralph Sandland

Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice (4th edn)

Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland

Abstract

Written by two of the country's leading specialists in mental health law, Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice, fourth edition, 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, the authors 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. New to this edition are a significant restructuring of the text to take account of changes in law, policy, and practice; and new and expanded coverage of various topics including the 2007 reforms to the 1983 Mental Health Act, DOLS and the MHA/MCA interface, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Keywords: mental health law, forcible confinement, medication, vulnerable people, human rights, mental illness, deviance

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Oct 2013

Print ISBN-13:: 9780199661503

Published online:: Jun 2014

DOI:: 10.1093/he/9780199661503.001.0001

Authors

Peter Bartlett, author Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of Mental Health Law, University of Nottingham

Ralph Sandland, author Associate Professor in Law, University of Nottingham

Back to results

Print
Save
Cite
Email this content

Share Link

Copy this link, or click below to email it to a friend
Email this content
or copy the link directly:

https://www.oxfordlawtrove.com/abstract/10.1093/he/9780199661503.001.0001/he-9780199661503
Link copied successfully

The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button.
Share This

Access to the complete content on Law Trove requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription.

Please subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you have purchased a print title that contains an access code, please see the information provided with the code or instructions printed within the title for information about how to register your code.

For questions on access or troubleshooting, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.

Oxford University Press

PRINTED FROM OXFORD LAW TROVE (www.oxfordlawtrove.com). © Oxford University Press, 2018. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a title in Oxford Law Trove for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice).

date: 11 April 2021

Browse All

Browse All

Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice (4th edn)

Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland

Abstract

Bibliographic Information

Authors

Share Link

Contents

Browse All

Browse All

Recently viewed (0)

Recently viewed (0)

Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice (4th edn)

Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland

Abstract

Bibliographic Information

Authors

Share Link

Contents