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Invited commentaries on: Mental health legislation is now a harmful anachronism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

K. M. Fulford*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, Warwickshire CV4 7AL; and University of Oxford
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