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Mental health laws - History

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    Mental disorder and the law / by A. Chalmers Fleming, H.F. Paterson.

    | Fleming, A. Chalmers (Alan Chalmers) | Date: 1966
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    The politics of mental health legislation / Clive Unsworth.

    | Unsworth, Clive | Date: 1987
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    Asylums and after : a revised history of the mental health services from the early 18th century to the 1990s / Kathleen Jones.

    | Kathleen Jones | Date: 1993
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    Mental health and social policy 1845-1959 / [Kathleen Jones].

    | Kathleen Jones | Date: [1960]
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    The lunacy acts : containing all the statutes relating to private lunatics, pauper lunatics, criminal lunatics, commissions of lunacy, public and private asylums, and the commissioners in lunacy with an introductory commentary, notes to the statutes, including references to decided cases, and a copious index / by Danby P. Fry.

    | United Kingdom | Date: 1877
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Mental Disorders - legislation & jurisprudence

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