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In his “Dissenting View,” Thomas Szasz makes two main points about the right to refuse treatment: it “makes no sense” to say that psychiatric patients have such a right, and it is a deceptive thing to say.
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Stiver, J.L. (1962). Consent and Competence. In: Bell, N.K. (eds) Who Decides?. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5823-0_10
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