Theme for Lent Term
Abnormal behaviour, medical science, and the law
Abnormal behaviour, practical psychiatry and the law
Readings for this session are available online (click the article):
Rumgay, Judith A.; Munro, E. 'The Lion's Den: Professional Defences in the Treatment of Dangerous Patients.' Journal of Forensic Psychiatry 12, no. 2 (2001), pp. 357-378
Smith, Roger ‘Medical Criticism and Penal Practice’ Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials (Edinburgh, 1981) pp12-33
Richard G. Frank & Sherry A. Glied ‘Health Care Financing and Income Support’ Better But Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States since 1950 (2006) pp48-69
Robert I. Simon, ‘Clinical risk management of the suicidal patient’ Clinical Psychiatry and the Law (2003) pp259-296
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