This case concerned the substantive prerequisites for involuntary treatment under the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA). The parties agreed that following the European Court of Human Rights ruling in Herczegfalvy v. Austria, treatment for mental disorder... Read More about A matter of necessity? Enforced treatment under the Mental Health Act: R. (JB) v. responsible medical officer Dr A. Haddock, Mental Health Act Commission second opinion appointed doctor, Dr. Rigby, Mental Health Act Commission second opinion appointed Doctor Wood, [2006] E.W.C.A. Civ. 961.
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Killing gay men, 1976-2001 (2007)
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The primary claim of this paper is that sufficient consistencies can be shown in the cases studied here and in the related literature that gay sexual homicide constitutes a coherent object of study. That is, in itself, a significant finding. Gay men... Read More about Killing gay men, 1976-2001.
Psychiatric treatment: in the absence of law?: R (on the application of B) v. Ashworth Hospital Authority and another, [2005] U.K.H.L. 20 (2006)
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This case concerns the scope of the compulsory treatment provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983. In particular, it determines whether persons confined under that Act may be compulsorily treated for any mental disorder or only for the form of mental... Read More about Psychiatric treatment: in the absence of law?: R (on the application of B) v. Ashworth Hospital Authority and another, [2005] U.K.H.L. 20.
Capacity, Treatment and Human Rights (2004)
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The test of compulsion in mental health law: capacity, therapeutic benefit, and dangerousness as criteria for compulsion (2003)
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This paper considers three possible justifications for psychiatric compulsion - dangerousness, capacity and therapeutic benefit.
English Mental Health Reforms: Lessons from Ontario? (2001)
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Legal madness in the nineteenth century (2001)
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Legal sources remain under-exploited in the history of madness, and the legal character of some documents is sometimes unrecognized. This article examines the interrelations between legal and medical histories of madness, and discusses use and availa... Read More about Legal madness in the nineteenth century.
Structures of confinement in nineteenth-century asylums, using England and Ontario as a comparative study (2000)
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Traditionally, historians of the care of the insane have understood their work as a branch of medical history. This paper focuses instead on the administrative structures of nineteenth century asylums. These are geographically specific and historica... Read More about Structures of confinement in nineteenth-century asylums, using England and Ontario as a comparative study.
The asylum, the workhouse, and the voice of the insane poor in nineteenth century England (1998)
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The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of patients. In this paper, admission records and case notes of a county asylum are used to consider the attitudes of those confined within it, and how the... Read More about The asylum, the workhouse, and the voice of the insane poor in nineteenth century England.
Sodomites in the pillory in eighteenth-century London (1997)
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The arrival of the eighteenth century brought with it new legal attention to sodomitical behaviour. Nowhere was this more notorious and public than in the punishment of those offences in the pillory. This paper argues that the pillory was a product... Read More about Sodomites in the pillory in eighteenth-century London.