Coercive care : the ethics of choice in health and medicine / Torbjorn Tannsjo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tännsjö, Torbjörn, 1946-

Tannsjo T Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Involuntary treatment--Moral and ethical aspects.

Involuntary treatment.

Therapeutics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines philosophical analysis with comparative studies of social policy and law in a large number of industrialized countries.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Somatic health care; Preventive health care; Infectious diseases; Mental illness; Forensic psychiatry; Foetal/maternal conflicts; Coercion in the social services; Conclusion; Appendix: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-161) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-61904-9

1-134-61905-7

1-280-18236-9

9786610182367

0-203-25444-9

0-203-00484-1

9780203004845

OCLC:

71348384