Mental illness and the legal rights of the individual / Helena Hashim

• Main Author: Hashim, Helena
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Law 1988
• Subjects: K Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence; KP Asia and Eurasia, Africa, Pacific Area, and Antarctica. Asia. (South Asia. Southeast Asia. East Asia)
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27979/2/27979.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/27979/

Much of the ancient-day myth concerning mental illness still remains a present day phenomena and it is not surprising to find that in Malaysia, the mentally abnormal/mentally illness patients are very commonly treated as outcast. This project paper is about the Law and its relationship to mentaI iII...