Legal aspects of mental capacity : a practical guide for health and social care professionals / / Bridgit Dimond
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| Autore: |
Dimond Bridgit
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| Titolo: |
Legal aspects of mental capacity : a practical guide for health and social care professionals / / Bridgit Dimond
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | Second edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (738 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 344.4104/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Insanity (Law) |
| Informed consent (Medical law) | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : anatomy of the Mental Capacity Act and its terms -- Background to the legal system and the Mental Capacity Act -- Human rights and statutory principles for governing decision making -- Definition of mental capacity -- Making decisions in the best interests of others -- Lasting powers of attorney -- Court of Protection, court appointed deputies, the Office of the Public Guardian and visitors -- Independent mental capacity advocates -- Advance decisions -- Research -- Protection of vulnerable adults and accountability -- Children and young persons -- Mental capacity and mental disorder -- Deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) -- Organ and tissue removal, storage and use -- The informal carer -- Implementation, resources, and code of practice -- Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland -- The future. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Legal aspects of mental capacity |
| ISBN: | 1-119-04536-3 |
| 1-119-04535-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910136419203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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