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Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings

Legal, Policy and Practical Responses

Herausgeber: Mcsherry, Bernadette; Maker, Yvette

Beschreibung

This book explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and institutional settings. It will be invaluable to regulators, policymakers, lawyers, clinicians, consumer advocates and academics studying the use and regulation of restrictive practices in mental health, disability and aged care.

Autor

Bernadette McSherry is the foundation director of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and an adjunct professor of law at the University of Melbourne. She has degrees in law, arts and psychology, with a PhD from York University, Canada. She is the Immediate past president of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law and was a legal member of the Mental Health Tribunal of Victoria from 2001 to 2018. She has written widely in the fields of mental health law and criminal law and is currently a commissioner of the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System and a commissioner with the Victorian Law Reform Commission. Yvette Maker is a senior research associate in the Melbourne Social Equity Institute at the University of Melbourne. Her work focuses on the disability- and gender-related dimensions of law, policy and practice. She has a special interest in disability human rights law, social security law and policy, and the design and regulation of social care and support systems. She holds bachelor of arts and bachelor of laws (hons) degrees from Murdoch University, and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Yvette's sole-authored book, Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism: Balancing Competing Claims Through Law and Policy, is forthcoming.

Produktdetails

• Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780367376048
• ISBN-10: 0367376040
• Artikelnr.: 60002350