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Mental health laws

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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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    Etude médico-légale sur la folie / par Ambroise Tardieu ... Avec quinze fac-similé d'écriture d'aliénés.

    | Ambroise Auguste Tardieu | Date: 1872
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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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    Manual of lunacy : a handbook relating to the legal care and treatment of the insane in the public and private asylums of Great Britain, Ireland, United States of America, and the Continent.

    | L. Forbes Winslow | Date: 1874
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United Kingdom
Insanity (Law)
Mental Disorders
Mentally ill - Care
Mentally ill - Commitment and detention
Mental Health
Mental Health Services
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