Legal and ethical duties of the clinician treating a patient who is liable to be impulsively violent

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 375-389

  Beck, James C ^a  

^a CAMBRIDGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; COURT; ETHICS; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; OFFENDER; REVIEW; VIOLENCE;

DELIRIUM, DEMENTIA, AMNESTIC, COGNITIVE DISORDERS; DUTY TO WARN; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; INSANITY DEFENSE; MALPRACTICE; MOOD DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0031686112     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0798(199822)16:3<375::AID-BSL312>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Review

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