Involuntary Civil Commitment: Time for Another Pendulum Swing?
2021
Joseph B Williams
Clinical associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. joseph_williams@med.unc.edu.
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D011634
Public Health
Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.
Community Health,Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health,Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health,Health, Community,Health, Public
D006801
Humans
Members of the species Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001523
Mental Disorders
Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.