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Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill
Madness in the Streets How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill
Author: Isaac
The national enthusiasm for a civil rights approach to all social problems has produced a body of case law that has made it impossible to give medical help to anyone without their consent. A short walk through any community reveals the failure of these policies--sidewalks and parks have become open-air mental wards, but without treatment. Now th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780029153819
ISBN-10: 0029153816
Publication Date: 4/15/1992
Pages: 256
Edition: Rep
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Publisher: Free Press
Book Type: Paperback
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