Psychiatry in the Palestine Authority: legal, ethical and forensic issues.
The historical and political reality of life in the West Bank and Gaza has deeply influenced the development of psychiatric services, and particularly the provision of evaluation and care for Palestinian forensic patients by Palestinian psychiatrists. The difficulties are presented and how they have changed during the events of the last decades.
Murad
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IJ
Bethlehem Psychiatric Hospital.
D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D007597:Jordan; D008004:Licensure; D008297:Male; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008877:Middle East; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011057:Politics; D011287:Prejudice; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*