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Zusatztext ..The overall impression formed by this book, for someone who has tried to keep up to date with developing ideas, is of a dam busting.It produces a series of insights which are thought-provoking at worst and revelatory at best.Those who wish to understand better the intellectual background from which the scooping committee is working should read this book. Informationen zum Autor Jill Peay is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Nigel Eastman is in the Department of Psychiatry at St. George's Hospital Medical School. Klappentext Law relating to mental disorder and to the mentally disordered has rarely been the subject of such extensive and heated debate. This book explores and reflects upon that debate. To date the focus has been on the tension between public protection and individual civil rights,since much of its impetus has derived from 'notorious' homicides in the community and been directed towards calls for a 'community treatment order'. The debate encapsulated here is more comprehensive, going to the heart of the nature of mental illness and its impacts on legal capacity, juxtaposing constructs which arise out of profoundly differing disciplines. The book concludes that the contribution of current mental health legislation is both marginal and marginalised and it seeks to set an agenda for radical law reform by recognising that asking questions may, at this stage, be more valuable than providing hasty answers. Many of the chapters deal with the recent Bournewood decision in the House of Lords. Zusammenfassung In this book law relating to mental disorder and to the mentally disordered is explored and reflected upon. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Law Without Enforcement: Theory and Practice Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay 2. Mental Health Law: Objectives and Principles William Bingley and Chris Heginbotham 3. Mental and Physical Illness: An Unsustainable Separation? Eric Matthews 4. Public Policy via Law: Practitioner's Sword and Politician's Shield Chris Heginbotham and Tony Elson 5. Client and Clinician: Law as an Intrusion Fiona Caldicott, Edna Conlan and Anthony Zigmond 6. Law as a Clinical Tool: Practising Within and Outwith the Law Ian Bynoe and Tony Holland 7. Law as a Rights Protector: Assessing the Mental Health Act 1983 Genevra Richardson and Oliver Thorold 8. The Citizen Mental Patient Peter Barham and Marian Barnes 9. Auditing the Effectiveness of Mental Health Law Nick Bosanquet 10. Madness and Moral Panics Geoffrey Pearson 11. Decision Making and Mental Health Law Annie Bartlett and Lawrence Phillips 12. Researching Law Bram Oppenheim 13. Afterword: Integrating Mental Health and Justice Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay ...
