Mental illness and legal discrimination

Why do so many countries have a mental health act? What is it about mental disorders which warrants that people who suffer from them be subject to different laws from the rest of society? The issues of stigma and discrimination against people with a mental disorder have moved up the agenda in many p...

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Autor principal: Zigmond, Tony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2009
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Guest Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508002
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spelling pubmed-67348982019-09-10 Mental illness and legal discrimination Zigmond, Tony Int Psychiatry Guest Editorial Why do so many countries have a mental health act? What is it about mental disorders which warrants that people who suffer from them be subject to different laws from the rest of society? The issues of stigma and discrimination against people with a mental disorder have moved up the agenda in many parts of the world. So why persist with a legal framework for the non-consensual medical treatment of those who are mentally ill which is different from that for those who are physically ill? The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2009-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6734898/ /pubmed/31508002 Text en © 2009 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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