Can the Law Serve as the Solution to Social Ills? The case of the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act, 1995

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 217-220

  Prins, Herschel ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; LAW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY;

EID: 0029828093     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580249603600306     Document Type: Article

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