Coercion and capacity to consent
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Coercion and capacity to consent
What does the capacity to consent to treatment entail and what factors influence it? To date, most research has focussed on individual factors that impair capacity to consent to treatment, such as intelligence, cognitive capacity and symptoms of mental illness. In this presentation, I want to explore the social and interpersonal factors that influence capacity to consent. I discuss the complexi...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Psychiatry
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244x-7-s1-s30