Institutional options in management of coercion in anorexia treatment: The antipodean experiment?

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 647-675

  Carney, Terry ^a   Tait, David ^b   Saunders, Dominique ^a   Touyz, Stephen ^a   Beumont, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; COURT; CUSTODY; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT RIGHT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0345445896     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2003.09.003     Document Type: Article

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