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Forensic Psychiatry in the UK
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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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.
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- Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 6 , Issue 12 , December 1982 , pp. 210 - 212
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