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Patients’ Right to Refuse Antipsychotic Drugs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2021

Richard Cole
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Law, Medicine and Healthcare , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , September 1981 , pp. 19 - 40
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1981

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