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21 - Major Legal Cases That Have Influenced Mental Health Ethics

from Section III - Legal, Research, and Organizational Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2018

By
G. Andrew H. Benjamin  and
Connie J. Beck
Edited by
Mark M. Leach  and
Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel
Mark M. Leach
Affiliation:
University of Louisville, Kentucky
Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel
Affiliation:
Cleveland State University
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The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Psychological Ethics , pp. 429 - 451
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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