Coercion in psychiatry: is it right to involuntarily treat inpatients with capacity?
Psychiatric inpatients with capacity may be treated paternalistically under the Mental Health Act 1983. This violates bodily autonomy and causes potentially significant harm to health and moral status, both of which may be long-lasting. I suggest that such harms may extend to killing moral persons t...
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BMJ Publ.
2019
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 45, Issue: 11, Pages: 742-745 |
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