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Mental health legislation in contemporary India: the need for inter-sectoral dialogue
It is said that war is far too serious a matter to be left to the generals alone. The same could be said for the interface between law and mental health. With our narrow, and sometimes myopic, treatment-centric vision we are ill equipped to claim hegemony over the complex domain of legislation as it...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists
2007
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734790/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507914 |
| Sumario: | It is said that war is far too serious a matter to be left to the generals alone. The same could be said for the interface between law and mental health. With our narrow, and sometimes myopic, treatment-centric vision we are ill equipped to claim hegemony over the complex domain of legislation as it relates to mental health, even more so in the multicultural Indian subcontinent, where the medieval exists alongside the modern and where abject poverty jostles with ostentatious wealth: |
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