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Medical Issues Relevant to Restraint

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In this modern era and in places where there is a functioning government with a robust judicial institution, the clash between individual rights and demands and those of the state or institutions will occur and will be subject to often intense public scrutiny. Readers will have watched television news broadcasts of large-scale ­protests and demonstrations at meetings of World Trade Organisations, Climate Change Summits, etc.

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  1. Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Philip S. L. Beh

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    Margaret M. Stark

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Beh, P.S.L. (2011). Medical Issues Relevant to Restraint. In: Stark, M. (eds) Clinical Forensic Medicine. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-258-8_7

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