Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals - Hardcover

Grisso, Thomas; Appelbaum, Paul S.

 
9780195103724: Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals

Synopsis

A concise guidebook to the assessment of patients' capacities to consent to treatment.

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About the Author

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 Professor of Psychiatry, and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. His books include: Trauma and Memory: Clinical and Legal Controversies (OUP, 1997) and Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change (OUP, 1994).

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