The Right of Access to Mental Health Care: Voluntary Treatment and the Role of the Law

Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 379-395

  McSherry, Bernadette ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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