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Citizens in detention: the role of the Mental Health Act commission in protecting the rights of detained patients
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Studies, 22(3), Autumn 1996, pp.28-46.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
In this article the author is concerned with questions of rights and citizenship as they apply to people who have been placed in a situation where their freedom to participate within society has been temporarily curtailed by being compulsorily detained within a psychiatric hospital. Looks at the 1983 Mental Health Act and the impact it has on detained patient.