Mental Health Law and Its Discontents: A Reappraisal of the Canadian Experience

Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 299-326

  Zuckerberg, Joaquin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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