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The historical background: the past 25 years since the Mental Health Act of 1959 | |
The social and medical consequences of recent legal reforms of mental health law in the USA | |
The recent Mental Health Act in the United Kingdom | |
Medical and social consequences of the Italian Psychiatric Care Act of 1978 | |
Lessons for the future drawn from United States legislation and experience | |
Recent developments in relation to mental health and the law in the Federal Republic of Germany | |
Psychopathy and dangerousness | |
Dangerousness in social perspective | |
Psychiatric explanations as excuses | |
Detention of patients: administrative problems facing Mental Health Review Tribunals | |
Developments in forensic psychiatry services in the National Health Service | |
The role of psychiatry in prisons and 'the right to punishment | |
Human rights in mental health | |
Changes ion mental health legislation as indicators of changing values and policies | |
The Danish experience: one model of psychiatric testimony to courts of law | |
A postscript on the discussions at the Cambridge Conference on Society, Psychiatry and the Law | |
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