Posts Tagged ‘ legal ’

The Problems With Obligatory Dangerousness

6 January, 2012
By Raphael Fraser

Happy New Year, first of all. The other day I happened upon a 2008 paper by Large, Nielssen, Ryan, and Hayes, entitled “The danger of dangerousness: why we must remove the dangerousness criterion from our mental health acts.” (J Med Ethics 2008;34:877-881). I won’t link to it, as it’s not freely available. However, I will...

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Midweek Medicine: interface with law

18 November, 2009
By Raphael Fraser

Psychiatry’s Peculiar Place I was struck today (not for the first time) by the peculiar place psychiatry has, in comparison to the other medical specialties. As psychiatrists we are one of only two groups in society who can detain people and restrict their basic freedoms. We can only do so in very closely-defined circumstances, but...

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Say NO to the National School Chaplaincy Program

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