Legislating Human Rights: Informed Consent and The Pennsylvania Mental Health Procedures Act

  • Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
  • June 1980,
  • 8
  • (2)
  • 133-151;
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Footnotes

  • * Ms. Ashley is a principal research associate with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.

  • ** Ms. Sestak was formerly a research associate with the Law and Psychiatry Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.

  • *** Dr. Roth is Director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.

  • The work on this paper was supported by PHS Research Grant No. MH 27553, NIMH Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency and Mental Health Services Development Branch.

    We wish to thank Charles Lidz, Ph.D., for his helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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