Why are we still living in the past? Sri Lanka needs urgent and timely reforms of its archaic mental health laws
Mental health legislation protects the rights of people with mental illnesses. However, despite major social, political and cultural changes, Sri Lankan mental health services still operate on laws enacted mostly during the British rule more than a century ago, in the pre-psychotropics era, and focu...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2023-02-01
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| Series: | BJPsych International |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056474022000265/type/journal_article |