Mental illness, medicine and law/ Martin Lyon Levine

Part I The Seriously Ill: Involuntary Short-Term Treatment: Ethical benefits and costs of coercion in short-term inpatient psychiatric care, Lars Kjellin, Kristina Andersson, Inga-Lill Candefjord, Tom Palmstierna and Tuula Wallstein; Involuntary outpatient commitment, Elyn R. Saks; Treatment Rights: Ethics in community mental health care. The legislative tenets of client's right to treatment in the least restrictive environment and freedom from harm: Implications for care providers, Douglas A. Marty and Rosemary Chapin; Privacy in psychiatric treatment: threats and responses, Paul S. Applebaum; Patient Autonomy: The right to refuse mental health treatment: a therapeutic jurisprudence analysis, Bruce J. Winick; Advance directives in psychiatry resolving issues of autonomy and competence, Janet Ritchie, Ron Sklar and Warren Steiner; Advocacy: Protection and advocacy: an ethics practice in mental health, D.P.Olsen; Ethical conflicts at the interface of advocacy and psychiatry, Martin L. Levine and Martha Lyon-Levine; The Social Construction of Madness: Psychiatry and the control of dangerousness: on the apotropaic function of the term 'mental illness', Thomas Szasz; Dangerousness, mental disorder, and responsibility, J.R. McMillan; Sanism, social science, and the development of mental disability law jurisprudence, Michael L. Perlin and Deborah A. Dorfman; Deinstitutionalization: The success of deinstitutionalization: empirical findings from case studies on state hospital closures, Aileen B. Rothbard and Eri Kuno; Build a better state hospital: deinstitutionalization has failed, Alexander Gralnick; Keeping the mentally ill out of jail, Richard Lamb; Cross-Cultural Psychiatry: Depression, somatization and the 'new cross-cultural psychiatry', Arthur M. Kleinman; Mental health law and ethics in transition: a report from Japan, Paul S. Applebaum; Psychiatric diagnosis and racial bias: empirical and interpretative approaches, Roland Littlewood; Providing cultu