Law without enforcement - theory and practice, Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay; mental health law - objectives and principles, William Bingley and Chris Heginbotham; mental and physical illness - an unsustainable separation?, Eric Matthews; public policy via law - practitioner's sword and politician's shield, Chris Heginbotham and Tony Elson; client and clinician - law as an intrusion - Fiona Caldicott, Edna Conlan and Anthony Zigmond; law as a clinical tool, Ian Bynoe and Tony Holland; law as a rights protector - assessing the Mental Health Act 1983, Genevra Richardson and Oliver Thorold; the citizen mental patient, Peter Barham and Marian Barnes; auditing the effectiveness of mental health law, Nick Bosanquet; madness and moral panics, Geoffrey Pearson; decision making and mental health law, Annie Bartlett and Lawrence Phillips; researching law, Bram Oppenheim; afterword - integrating mental health and justice, Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay; case list.
Nigel Eastman is in the Department of Psychiatry at St. George's
Hospital Medical School.
Jill Peay is a Reader in the Department of Law at the London School
of Economics and Political Science.
…a must for anyone working in mental health care.The book is a
detailed examination of the issues which the current review of
mental health legislation ought to address.the contributors put
together a convincing argument for new legislation that would root
out the contradictions and conflicts and halt the damaging
conflation between mental illness and violence towards others.
*Mental Health Care*
The book is brimming over with reflections, ideas and proposals,
some (inevitably) easier to follow than othersit is the combined
efforts of all the contributors that makes this book so worthy of
priority reading.
*Journal of Mental Health Law*
For those interested in mental health law this book is manna from
heaven.
*Howard Journal of Criminal Justice*
I recommend that Government ministers read it and reconsider.
*OpenMind*
..The overall impression formed by this book, for someone who has
tried to keep up to date with developing ideas, is of a dam
busting.It produces a series of insights which are
thought-provoking at worst and revelatory at best.Those who wish to
understand better the intellectual background from which the
scooping committee is working should read this book.
*Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law*
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