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Mental Health Law in China: A Socio-legal Analysis

By (author) Bo Chen

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This book provides an important critique of mental health law and practice in China, with a focus on involuntary detention and treatment. The work explores Chinaâ€™s mental health law reform regarding treatment decision-making in the new era of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It adopts a socio-legal approach, not only by undertaking a comprehensive desk-based analysis of the reforms introduced by Chinaâ€™s Mental Health Law (MHL) but also examining its implementation based on evidence from practice. The book seeks to investigate whether Chinaâ€™s first national MHL takes a step closer to the requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on mental health treatment decision-making, and, if not, why not? The book will be of interest to those working in the areas of mental health law and policy, medical law and disability, human rights law, and Asian Studies.