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Published Online: September 1972

Courts, State Hospitals, and the Right to Treatment

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

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The author discusses the court decisions revolving around the right to treatment that have culminated in a new legal doctrine holding courts responsible for maintaining state hospital standards. To deal with the resulting dilemma, psychiatry must develop objective standards that the court can apply in measuring psychiatric care and thus prevent the legal determination of treatment adequacy from usurping psychiatric authority and determining hospital policy.

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American Journal of Psychiatry
Pages: 298 - 304
PubMed: 5053709

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Published in print: September 1972
Published online: 1 April 2006

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JONAS ROBITSCHER
Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and the Behavioral Sciences, Emory University Schools of Law and Medicine, Atlanta, Ga. 30322

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