Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Laws: The ‘Rights’ and the Wrongs of Competing Models?

Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 257-274

  Carney, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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