Testamentary capacity and suicide: An overview of legal and psychiatric issues

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 403-415

  Shulman, Kenneth I ^a   Hull, Ian ^b   Cohen, Carole A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Hull/Hull Barristers/Solicitors   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CARE; SUICIDE;

EID: 0242585376     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2527(03)00044-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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