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Detention, Capacity, and Treatment in the Mentally Ill—Ethical and Legal Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2019

H. PAUL CHIN
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For individuals whose mental illness impair their ability to accept appropriate care—the depressed, acutely suicidal mother, or the psychotic lawyer too paranoid to eat any food—statutes exist to permit involuntary hospitalization, a temporary override of paternalistic benefice over personal autonomy. This exception to the primacy of personal autonomy at the core of bioethics has the aim of restoring the mental health of the temporarily incapacitated individual, and with it, their autonomy.

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 28 , Special Issue 4: Clinical Neuroethics , October 2019 , pp. 752 - 758
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019 

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Acknowledgement: This manuscript was produced with significant contribution from, and intellectual inspiration of, Guillermo Palchik, Ph.D., Clinical Neuroethicist, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA.

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