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Professor PETER BARTLETT's Outputs (35)

Mental health law in the community: thinking about Africa (2011)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P., Jenkins, R., & Kiima, D. (2011). Mental health law in the community: thinking about Africa. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 5(21), https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-5-21

The new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities creates a new paradigm for mental
health law, moving from a focus on institutional care to a focus on community-based services and treatment. This
article considers implem... Read More about Mental health law in the community: thinking about Africa.

Sex, dementia, capacity and care homes (2010)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P. (2010). Sex, dementia, capacity and care homes. Liverpool Law Review, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-010-9077-6

This paper addresses the appropriate legal and policy approach to sexual conduct involving people with dementia in care homes, where the mental capacity of one or both partners is compromised. Such conduct is prohibited by sections 34–42 of the Sexua... Read More about Sex, dementia, capacity and care homes.

Reforming mental disability law in Africa: practical tips and suggestions (2010)
Book
Bartlett, P., & Hamzic, V. (2010). Reforming mental disability law in Africa: practical tips and suggestions. University of Nottingham, Human Rights Law Centre

This report constitutes a major output of the project Designing Mental Health Law in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Lesotho which was directed by Professor Peter Bartlett, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of Mental Health. The re... Read More about Reforming mental disability law in Africa: practical tips and suggestions.

‘You may kiss the bride, but you may not open your mouth when you do so’: policies concerning sex, marriage and relationships in English forensic psychiatric facilities (2010)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P., Mantovani, N., Cratsley, K., Dillon, C., & Eastman, N. (2010). ‘You may kiss the bride, but you may not open your mouth when you do so’: policies concerning sex, marriage and relationships in English forensic psychiatric facilities. Liverpool Law Review, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-010-9078-5

In 1996, the Royal College of Psychiatrists recommended that all psychiatric facilities in the UK develop policies concerning sexuality and sexual expression for persons contained in those facilities. This paper analyses the prevalence and content of... Read More about ‘You may kiss the bride, but you may not open your mouth when you do so’: policies concerning sex, marriage and relationships in English forensic psychiatric facilities.

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 (2007)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P. (2007). 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. Medical Law Review, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwl027

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.

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)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P. (2006). 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. Medical Law Review, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwi037

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.

Legal madness in the nineteenth century (2001)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P. (2001). Legal madness in the nineteenth century. Social History of Medicine, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/14.1.107

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)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P. (2000). Structures of confinement in nineteenth-century asylums, using England and Ontario as a comparative study. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-2527%2898%2900041-7

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)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P. (1998). The asylum, the workhouse, and the voice of the insane poor in nineteenth century England. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-2527%2898%2900023-5

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)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P. (1997). Sodomites in the pillory in eighteenth-century London. Social and Legal Studies, 6(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/096466399700600406

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.