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There is a good deal of recent dispute both within and outside of psychiatry about the procedure of involuntary hospitalization. (We use ‘involuntary hospitalization’ to cover both 2–3 day ‘emergency’ detentions and longer civil commitments. We discuss mainly detention here but do refer to commitment when appropriate.) While writers such as Szasz [10] believe that involuntary hospitalization should be eliminated entirely, it is more common to find disagreement about how wide or narrow the grounds for detaining patients should be.
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Culver, C.M., Gert, B. (1981). The Morality of Involuntary Hospitalization. In: Spicker, S.F., Healey, J.M., Engelhardt, H.T. (eds) The Law-Medicine Relation: A Philosophical Exploration. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8407-3_10
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