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5 - The Right to Refuse Treatment

Rogers v. Commissioner of Department of Mental Health (1983)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2019

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Alec Buchanan
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Peter Ash
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Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Psychiatry and the Law
Peter Ash
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Emory University, Atlanta
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From Courtroom to Clinic
Legal Cases that Changed Mental Health Treatment
 , pp. 44 - 55
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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