- Legal Parameters of Informed Consent Applied to Electroconvulsive Therapy
Past attempts by policy experts and scholars to synthesize the legal policy considerations behind a general limited right to refuse treatment and specific legislative efforts to regulate the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) have met with considerable controversy, confrontation, and misunderstanding. It will be argued on the basis of the following legal analysis that the parameters of the law of informed consent and substituted decisionmaking, as articulated in the leading court decisions and state legislation, provide a reasonable framework upon which to develop sound policy judgments about the right to refuse electroconvulsive therapy.
URL: http://www.ect.org/resources/summary.html
(Added: 22-Jul-1999 Hits: 656)
- Psychiatric Advance Directive
If you are concerned that you may be subject to involuntary psychiatric commitment or treatment at some future time, you can prepare a legal document in advance to express your choices about treatment. The document is called an advance directive for mental health decisionmaking.
URL: http://www.bazelon.org/advdir.html
(Added: 23-Jul-1999 Hits: 322)
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