Psychiatry and the Law - Do the Fields Agree in Their Views on Coercive Treatment?

Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Aspects

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 81-96

  Arboleda Flórez, Julio ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

'psychiatry is the theory and practice of coercion'; 'whores of the courts'; 'you can go and play after you do your homework'; Coercion in psychiatry; Ethics of coercion; Forensic psychiatry; Psychiatry and the law do the fields agree in their views on coercive treatment?

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885990356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470978573.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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