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Mental Illness: Law and Public Policy

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Editors:
  1. Baruch A. Brody

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, USA

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  2. H. Tristram Engelhardt

    1. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 5)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Concept of Mental Illness and the Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Concept of Mental Illness: A Philosophical Examination

      • Joseph Margolis
      Pages 3-23

    3. Legal Conceptions of Mental Illness

      • Michael S. Moore
      Pages 25-69

  3. Criminal and Civil Liability of the Mentally Ill

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Minds On Trial

      • Jerome Neu
      Pages 73-105

    3. Mental Abnormality, Personal Responsibility, and Tort Liability

      • Jules L. Coleman
      Pages 107-133

  4. Involuntary Civil Commitment of the Mentally Ill

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Paternalistic Grounds for Involuntary Civil Commitment: A Utilitarian Perspective

      • Rolf E. Sartorius
      Pages 137-145

    3. Involuntary Civil Commitment: The Moral Issues

      • Dan W. Brock
      Pages 147-173

  5. Thomas Szasz’s Proposals: A Reconstruction and Defense

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Critical Use of Utilitarian Arguments: Szasz on Paternalism

      • Corinna Delkeskamp
      Pages 177-207

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 249-255
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About this book

This volume developed from and around a series of six lectures sponsored by Rice University and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the Fall of 1976. Though these lectures on the concepts of mental health, mental illness and personal responsibility, and the social treatment of the mentally ill were given to general audiences in Houston and Galveston, they were revised and expanded to produce six extensive formal essays by Dan Brock, Jules Coleman, Joseph Margolis, Michael Moore, Jerome Neu, and Rolf Sartorius. The five remaining contributions by Daniel Creson, Corinna Delkeskamp, Edmund Erde, James Speer, and Stephen Wear were in various ways engendered by the debates occasioned by the original six lectures. In fact, the majority of the last five contributions emerged from informal dis· cussions occasioned by the original lecture series. The result is an interlocking set of essays that address the law and public policy insofar as they bear on the treatment of the mentally ill, special atten· tion being given to the defmition of mental illness, generally and in the law, to the issues of the bearing of mental incompetence in cases of criminal and civil liability, and to the issue of involuntary commitment for the purpose of treatment or for institutional care. There is as well a critical defense of Thomas Szasz's radical proposal that mental illnesses are best understood as problems in living, not as diseases.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, USA

    Baruch A. Brody

  • Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, USA

    H. Tristram Engelhardt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mental Illness: Law and Public Policy

  • Editors: Baruch A. Brody, H. Tristram Engelhardt

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8972-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1980

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1057-4Published: 31 July 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-8974-0Published: 13 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8972-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 255

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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