Neither bad nor mad : the competing discourses of psychiatry, law, and politics /

This book looks at what happened when the government of Victoria, Australia, enacted special legislation to detain one person with a severe antisocial personality disorder on the grounds of his presumed dangerousness, despite the fact that he did not fit within the ordinary criteria of mental illnes...

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প্রধান লেখক: Greig, Deidre N.
বিন্যাস: Licensed eBooks
ভাষা:ইংরেজি
প্রকাশিত: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2002.
মালা:Forensic focus ; 20.
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সূচিপত্রের সারণি:
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; AUTHOR'S NOTE; PREFACE; 1 Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know; 2 A Macabre Dance to His Well known Tune The Pathway of Resistance; 3 A Flurry of Activity The Political Reaction to a Dangerous Person; 4 Bad or Mad The Credibility of Psychiatry; 5 A Malleable Boundary and the Bridging Manoeuvres; 6 The Supreme Court David versus Goliath; 7 The Social Audience and a Master Puppeteer; 8 The Prism of Dangerousness; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX.