There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with D

Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines philosophical analy

"Scouring the history of Native American boarding schools, nineteenth-century reformatories, and programs to Americanize immigrants, Glenn brilliantly reveals t

The use of coercion is one of the defining issues of mental health care. Since the earliest attempts to contain and treat the mentally ill, power imbalances hav

Argues that laws that enforce what is good for the individual's well-being, or hinder what is bad, are morally justified.