Section 47--assault on or protection of the freedom of the individual? A short response to Greaves
Section 47 of the 1948 National Assistance Act allows incompetent people, usually old people, to be removed from their homes. It can be considered as a repressive tool, designed to infringe personal liberty, but in this article it is argued that it can also be considered as being legislation which g...
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BMJ Publ.
1991
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 1991, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 195-204 |
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