Citizens in detention: The role of the mental health act commission in protecting the rights of detained patients

Local Government Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 28-46

  Barnes, Marian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002143276     PISSN: 03003930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03003939608433828     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. See, for example, C. Pateman, 'Equality, Difference, Subordination: The Politics of Motherhood and Women's Citizenship', in G. Bock and S. James (eds.), Beyond Equality and Difference. Citizenship, Feminist Politics, Female Subjectivity (Routledge, 1992).
2. R. Plant, 'Citizenship, Rights and Welfare', in A. Coote (ed.), The Welfare of Citizens. Developing New Social Rights (London: Rivers Oram Press, 1992).
3. See the collection edited by A. Coote, The Welfare of Citizens.
4. D. Prior, J. Stewart and K. Walsh, Citizenship: Rights, Community and Participation (Pitman, 1995).
5. L. Doyal and I. Gough, A Theory of Human Need (Macmillan, 1991).
6. Royal College of Psychiatrists, Community Supervision Orders (RCP, 1993).
7. MIND, MIND's Response to the Department of Health's Guidance on Supervision Registers (MIND, 1994).
8. S. Ramon, 'The Legal Base', in S. Ramon and M.G. Giannichedda (eds.), Psychiatry in Transition. The British and Italian Experiences (Pluto Press, 1988).
9. R. Forster, 'Evolution and Outcome of the New Civil Commitment Law in Austria', in J. Casselman, D. Bobon, P. Cosyns, J. Wimotte, P. Arteel, W. Depreeuw, B. de Ruyver, V. Janssen, C. Mormont and S. Snacken (eds.), Law and Mental Health. Historical, Legal, Ethical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Aspects (Leuven, 1992).
10. Doyal and Gough, op. cit., p.60.
11. The Law Commission, Mental Incapacity, Law Com No 231 (HMSO, 1995).
12. Doyal and Gough, op. cit., p.50.
13. M. Barnes, R. Bowl and M. Fisher, Sectioned: Social Services and the 1983 Mental Health Act (Routledge, 1990), p.13.
14. W. Bingley, 'The Cavalry is Cantering rather than Charging', Community Care, 7 Feb. 1985, pp.18-20.
15. P. Bean and T. Nemitz, The Nature and Extent of Compulsory Admissions to Mental Hospitals within the Four London Health Authorities (University of Loughborough, Department of Social Sciences, 1993). These findings have been confirmed by recent statistics collected by the Department of Health.
16. HMSO, Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Complaints about Ashworth Hospital, CMND 2028-I+II (1992).
17. M. Barnes, 'Challenging the Culture: The Role of the Mental Health Act Commission', in C. Hemingway (ed.), Special Women (Avebury, forthcoming).
18. MHAC, Fourth Biennial Report 1989-1991 (HMSO, 1991).
19. See, for example, A. Maden, C. Curle, C. Meux, S. Burrow and J. Gunn, The Treatment and Security Needs of Special Hospital Patients, unpublished report to the Department of Health and the Special Hospital Service Authority, 1993.
20. MHAC, Fifth Biennial Report 1991-1993 (HMSO, 1993).
21. J. Montgomery, 'Rights to Health and Health Care', in A. Coote (ed.), The Welfare of Citizens.
22. J. Newton, Preventing Mental Illness (Routledge, 1988)
23. Barnes, Bowl and Fisher, op. cit.
24. Ibid., pp. 189-90.
25. Ibid.