Legal Aspects of Chronic Mental Illness
| Autor: | B N Raveesh, Barre Vijaya Prasad, Meghamala S. Tavaragi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| DOI: | 10.4018/978-1-5225-0519-8.ch012 |
| Popis: | People with a chronic mental illness or disability have been identified as a group suffering multiple disadvantages. Law interacts with mental disorder to protect society from the dangerous consequences of mental disorder. The legal interaction with mental disorder includes both civil and criminal issues. A paradigm shift has given a new perspective to the care of mental disorders and has led to the review of mental health legislations worldwide in general, India in particular. This chapter will discuss the interaction of law and psychiatry, rights of persons with mental disorder and the gap in implementation of these laws. |
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