Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice - Bartlett, Peter (Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of Mental Health Law, University of Nottingham) a Sandland, Ralph (Associate Professor in Law, University of Nottingham)

This text provides a detailed overview of mental health law and the socio-legal, historical, sociological, and cultural issues related to them. The role of the law and medical treatments in regulating and controlling deviance are explored alongside the fundamental rights and liberties of some of society's most vulnerable people.