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

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

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

Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, peo