Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-s22k5 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-12T02:49:51.496Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Forensic Psychiatry in the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Patrick McGrath
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Here surely is the scriptural authority for the existence of forensic psychiatry, even though one interpretation of the text could be that medical care is a fate literally worse than death. In fact, however, forensic psychiatry grew up largely from the efforts of lawyers to use medical expertise to save their clients from the execution of a death sentence, and their efforts antedate the historic trial of Hadfield by many years, indeed centuries.

Type
Perspective
Information
Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 6 , Issue 12 , December 1982 , pp. 210 - 212
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1982
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.