Forensic psychiatric service provision in Pakistan and its challenges
In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan the law relating to people who are mentally ill, until 2001, was set out by the Lunacy Act of 1912, which was inherited from the British colonial occupiers. In 2001 the Mental Health Ordinance 2001 took its place but only for this federal law to be superseded in A...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2017-05-01
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| Series: | BJPsych International |
| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S205647400000177X/type/journal_article |