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Author Tännsjö, Torbjörn, 1946-

Title Coercive care : the ethics of choice in health and medicine / Torbjörn Tännsjö.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 163 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-161) and index.
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 Introduction -- Somatic health care -- Preventive health care -- Infectious diseases -- Mental illness -- Forensic psychiatry -- Foetal/maternal conflicts -- Coercion in the social services -- Conclusion.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Involuntary treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Involuntary treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Involuntary treatment.
Therapeutics.
Therapeutics.
Coercion.
Ethics, Medical.
Commitment of Mentally Ill.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Tännsjö, Torbjörn, 1946- Coercive care. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 (DLC) 98047880
ISBN 9780203004845
0203004841
9780415208499
0415208491
9781134619054
1134619057
0203004841
0415208491