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Title Critical perspectives on coercive interventions : law, medicine and society / edited by Claire Spivakovsky, Kate Seear and Adrian Carter
Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; 55
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of boxes; List of contributors; Coercive interventions in law and medicine: Setting the scene; Critique and complexity; Walking through the collection; References; PART I: Examining foundations for coercive interventions in lawand medicine; 1. From coerced to compulsory treatment of addiction in the patient's best interests: Is it supported by the evidence?; A taxonomy of coerced addiction treatment; The ethics of legally coerced treatment; Two models of addiction; When would coerced treatment of addiction be ethical?
What might an ethical legally coerced treatment program look like?Compulsory treatment of addiction; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2. Community treatment orders: The evidence and the ethical implications; Background and the international context; Are community treatment orders compatible with human rights?; Do community treatment orders work?; Evaluating the wider impact of community treatment orders; Alternatives to community treatment orders; Conclusion; References; Legislation; 3. The ambivalence of addiction medicine to the concept of involuntary treatment is costing patients dearly
Acceptable' involuntary or mandated treatmentsInvoluntary treatment in the mental health specialty; Addiction medicine case presentations; Organ damage in drug-using individuals is important to the debate over mandated treatment; Special issues in relation to addiction medicine patients; What involuntary or mandated treatment programs exist for those with a dependency?; Making a constructive case for a better way forward: a proposal based on the evidence and the lack of it; Conclusion; References; PART II: Lives, bodies and voices -- The material impacts and livedeffects of coercion
4. The variable treatment of (in)capacity in the practical operation of Victoria's key substituted decision-making regimes: View from the frontlineThe Guardianship and Administration Act; The Mental Health Act; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5. Capacity does not reside in me; Background; The intrinsic value of bodily integrity and autonomy; Ethical peril under the Mental Health Act; Conclusion; References; 6. The impossibilities of 'bearing witness' to the violence of coercive interventions in the disability sector; Compulsory able-bodiedness; Law's violent exceptions
The unanswered calls for a royal commissionThe 'differend' of coercive interventions as institutional violence; Conclusion; Notes; References; PART III: Regulating the production of 'good', 'healthy' and'meaningful' lives; 7. Making the abject: Problem-solving courts, addiction, mental illness and impairment; The emergence of 'problem' populations and therapeutic 'solutions'; Bacchi, policy problematisation, and the law; The Victorian Drug Court; The Assessment and Referral Court List; Conclusion; Notes; References; 8. The Healthy Welfare Card: Indigenous empowerment or 'remote control'?
Summary "Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental illness, disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use, from harming themselves or others. These interventions can entail major curtailments of individuals' liberty and bodily integrity, and may cause significant harm and distress. The use of coercive medico-legal interventions can also serve competing social interests that raise profound ethical, legal and clinical questions. Examining the ethical, social and legal issues involved in coerced care, this book brings together the views and insights of ... researchers from a range of disciplines, including criminology, law, ethics, psychology and public health, as well as legal and medical practitioners, social-service 'consumers' and government officials. Topics addressed in this volume include: compulsory treatment and involuntary detention orders in civil mental health and disability law; mandatory alcohol and drug treatment programs and drug courts; community treatment orders; the use of welfare cards with Indigenous populations; mandated treatment of seriously ill minors; as well as adult guardianship and substituted decision-making regimes. These contributions attempt to shed light on why we use coercive interventions, whether we should, whether they are effective in achieving the benefits that are offered to justify their use, and the impact that they have on some of society's most vulnerable citizens in the names of 'justice' and 'treatment.'"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Involuntary treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics -- Miscellanea
Involuntary Treatment -- ethics
Ethics, Medical
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
Involuntary treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea
Form Electronic book
Author Spivakovsky, Claire, editor.
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