Assessment of mental capacity: a practical guide for doctors and lawyers (4th edition)

This book does not really need a review, because it does exactly what it says on the label: it gives English doctors and lawyers a practical guide to assessing mental capacity. This is most especially a concern for psychiatrists. Other clinicians can normally expect that their clients are able to decide for themselves whether to consent to treatment – there may be odd exceptions, such as an accident victim brought in unconscious in urgent need of a blood transfusion and with no evidence as to whether he is a Jehovah’s Witness, but by and large physicians merely have a legal...