Forensic Aspects of Sleep - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471969982 ISBN 13: 9780471969983

Publisher: Wiley, 1997

Synopsis

Edited by a renowned psychiatrist and sleep expert together with a specialist in medical law, this book describes normal and abnormal patterns of sleep, its importance for effective human functioning, dissociative states, alertness and drug-related sleepiness.

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From the Back Cover

Sleep medicine is a rapidly growing specialism. The role of sleepiness and sleep disorder in psychiatry and psychopharmacology is already well recognised but sleep issues play an increasing role in litigation relating to behavioural problems, mental competence and accidents. This means that professionals in psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry now need a greater awareness of the relevant legal issues and lawyers themselves increasingly need to understand more about sleep medicine. Edited by experts in their field, this book first briefly describes normal and abnormal patterns of sleep the importance of sleep for effective human functioning, dissociative states, alertness and drug-related sleepiness. It then discusses the implications of sleep medicine in a wide range of legal contexts, including criminal responsibility, employment, and civil liability for negligence. Written in a style accessible to both medical and legal specialists, the book has an international approach and will be an invaluable resource for psychiatrists, psychopharmacologists and professionals in medical law.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471969982
• ISBN 13: 9780471969983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Shapiro Colin M., Smith Alexander McCall