Therapeutic Jurisprudence Applied: Essays on Mental Health Law

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Carolina Academic Press, 1997 - Law - 414 pages

A sensitive policy analysis of law should seek to measure and weigh all of the costs and benefits of legal rules. This book suggests ways in which mental health law can be reshaped -- not only to protect the legal rights of patients, but also to improve their mental health.

"[A] lesson on where and how to focus the therapeutic jurisprudence lens so that the concept generates original and fruitful ideas." -- Thomas Grisso, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Department of Psychiatry

"[The chapters] demonstrate that therapeutic jurisprudence provides a remarkable number of new insights into mental disability law... Litigators, scholars, policy makers, and mental disability professionals all owe Professor Winick a tremendous debt for the thoughtful, original, and provocative work that he has done." -- Michael L. Perlin, New York Law School

"For novices in the field, it is an exciting view of a difficult corner of the law. For those who have spent their careers in the area, this work is both eye-opening and rejuvenating." -- Christopher Slobogin, University of Florida College of Law

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Contents

The Approach of Therapeutic Jurisprudence
3
The Side Effects of Incompetency Labeling
17
The Right to Refuse Mental Health Treatment
67
Copyright

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The late Bruce Winick was a Professor of Law at University of Miami School of Law.

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TitleTherapeutic Jurisprudence Applied: Essays on Mental Health Law
Blackstone Commentaries
Carolina Academic Press studies in law and psychology
Studies in law and psychology
AuthorBruce J. Winick
PublisherCarolina Academic Press, 1997
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedAug 27, 2007
ISBN0890899894, 9780890899892
Length414 pages
Subjects › 

Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Law / Constitutional
Law / General
Law / Jurisprudence
Law / Mental Health
  
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