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Mill on Mental Health Acts
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Browne, Alister |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | Mental health acts allow for interference with the liberty of the individual. As such, they serve as test cases for theories of liberty, and thus the question of what Mill would think about them arises. My aim is to answer this question. I argue that Mill would embrace mental health acts to protect mentally disturbed individuals from themselves and others from them, and that they should have broad admission criteria, allow capable patients to refuse treatment, and have treatment decisions made by patients or their families on the basis of substituted judgements rather than representatives of the state acting on best interest judgements. This interpretation will show that many writers who claim Mill's support cannot properly do so. It is also a combination of views that cannot be readily found in mental health acts themselves, but which, as Mill's reasons for it show, is a serious candidate for legislative adoption. |
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| ISSN | 09538208 |
| e-ISSN | 17416183 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0953820815000291 |
| Journal | Utilitas |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 28 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2016-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Utilitas Medical Ethics Mental Health Acts |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Philosophy |
