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Chemical castration and consent to treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John R. Hamilton
John R. Hamilton*
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Institute of Psychiatry, London, SE5
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A funny thing happened to Mr Kenneth Clarke on his way to the House of Commons in October 1982. It was the last day of debate on the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill and for some peculiar reason the then Minister of Health decided to reject the advice he had just been given by DHSS officials and instead accepted at the last minute an amendment proposed by the Opposition which extended the consent to treatment provisions for psychosurgery and certain other (then undefined) treatments to voluntary patients.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 12 , Issue 11 , November 1988 , pp. 493 - 494
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988

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4. The Guardian (1988, 9 August) ‘Castration drug safeguards plea’.Google Scholar
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