This book provides an important critique of mental health law and practice in China, with a focus on involuntary detention and treatment. The work explores China’s mental health law reform regarding treatment decision-making in the new era of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It adopts a socio-legal approach, not only by undertaking a comprehensive desk-based analysis of the reforms introduced by China’s Mental Health Law (MHL) but also examining its implementation based on evidence from practice. The book seeks to investigate whether China’s first national MHL takes a step closer to the requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on mental health treatment decision-making, and, if not, why not? The book will be of interest to those working in the areas of mental health law and policy, medical law and disability, human rights law, and Asian Studies.
| ISBN: | 9781032079080 |
| Publication date: | 29th January 2024 |
| Author: | Bo Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau Chen |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Health Law |
| Genres: |
Law: Human rights and civil liberties Comparative law Disability and the law Public health and safety law Mental health law Mental health services Administrative jurisdiction and public administration |