Assessing competence to consent to treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals
Book Details
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Published : 1998
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 224
- Category :
Clinical Psychology - Catalogue No : 9212
- ISBN 13 : 9780195103724
- ISBN 10 : 0195103726
About the Author(s)
Thomas Grisso, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Forensic Training and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D., is the A.F. Zeleznik Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester. His previous books include Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change (OUP, 1994) and Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice (OUP, 1987).