The community of the excluded: mental health and confidentiality in prisons

The thought provoking paper by Elger et al1 addresses a real and common issue for healthcare professionals who find themselves working outside traditional healthcare environments and in communities that may have very particular values and purposes. The authors set out to explore how mental health pr...

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Main Author: Adshead, Gwen (Author)
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2015
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 6, Pages: 501-502
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