Caesarean section: A treatment for mental disorder?

British Medical Journal

Volumn 314, Issue 7088, 1997, Pages 1183-1193

  Dolan, Bridget ^a   Parker, Camilla ^b  

^a Henderson Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b Mind   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

CASE STUDIES; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; COMPETENCE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GREAT BRITAIN; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; JUDICIAL ACTION; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL RIGHTS; MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1983 (GREAT BRITAIN); MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTALLY ILL; PREGNANT WOMEN; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; TAMESIDE AND GLOSSOP ACUTE SERVICES TRUST V. CH;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; JUDICIAL ROLE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANT WOMEN; PRENATAL CARE; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID;

EID: 0030932630     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

References (8)

1. Re F (in utero) [1988] 2 AII ER 193.
2. Re S (adult refusal of treatment) (1992) 9 BMLR 69.
3. B v Croydon Health Authority (1994) 22 BMLR 13.
4. House of Commons official report (Hansard) 1982 March 22; 82: col 693.
5. Re C (adult refusal of treatment) (1993) 15 BMLR 77.
6. Dyer C. Mother challenges forced caesarean operation. Guardian 1996 December 18.
7. Re S (1997) (unreported).
8. Gunn M. Treatment without consent. J Forensic Psychiatry 1995;6:411-5. (Accepted 20 February 1997)