Informed Consent at Gunpoint: When Psychiatry Affects Gun Ownership

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 33, Issue 2-3, 2015, Pages 346-355

  Candilis, Philip J ^a   Khurana, Gagandeep ^a   Leong, Gregory B ^b   Weinstock, Robert ^c  

^a St Elizabeths Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENTIALITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; FIREARM; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PSYCHIATRY;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CONFIDENTIALITY; DUTY TO WARN; FIREARMS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRY;

EID: 84931382007     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2165     Document Type: Article

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