The rights of people with mental disabilities : the authoritative ACLU guide to the rights of people with mental illness and mental retardation / Robert M. Levy, Leonard S. Rubenstein.
1996
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Title
The rights of people with mental disabilities : the authoritative ACLU guide to the rights of people with mental illness and mental retardation / Robert M. Levy, Leonard S. Rubenstein.
Published
Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, [1996]
Copyright
©1996
Call Number
KF480 .L48 1996
ISBN
0809319896 (cloth : alk. paper)
080931990X (pbk. : alk. paper)
080931990X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
x, 370 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)32968706
Note
"A completely revised and updated edition of The rights of mental patients and The rights of mentally retarded persons."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Authoritative ACLU guide to the rights of people with mental illness and mental retardation
Table of Contents
Preface
Antecedents and Acknowledgments
I
Introduction
1
II
Standards for Involuntary Commitment
15
III
Procedures for Admission and Release
63
IV
Personal Autonomy, Informed Consent, and the Right to Refuse Treatment
102
V
The Right to Be Free from Discrimination
152
VI
The Right to Treatment and Services
205
VII
Rights in Everyday Life in Institutions and the Community
284
VIII
The Legal System
332
App. A
Rights of Institutionalized People under Wyatt v. Stickney
341
App. B
Resources
358