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More on the Right to Refuse Treatment: Brother Fox and the Mentally Ill in New York

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2021

Susan Haberstroh Rockford
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The idea for this article first occurred to me more than one year ago when the Brother Fox case was decided by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York. At the same time, debate was raging among, and between, lawyers and psychiatrists about the right of involuntary psychiatric patients to refuse antipsychotic medication. Thus. I was led to consider the philosophical and legal relationship between the so-called right to die and the right to refuse psychiatric treatment.

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Law, Medicine and Healthcare , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 19 - 21
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Copyright © 1983 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics

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