Eating disorders comprise a diverse group, which includes anorexia nervosa, bulimia
nervosa, binge eating disorder, and other non specific eating disorders. Recently the rising …

Anorexia nervosa poses particular challenges for medicine, for ethics and human rights, and
for the law. These challenges are emblematic of wider dilemmas across mental health and …

Medicine and ethics, rather than the law, are the dominant players in deciding if and when
coercion is appropriately deployed within clinical management of a condition. The same is …

Every treatment will be confronted with the dilemma of enhancing personal well-being and
respecting the person as self-determining individual. Treatment of anorexia nervosa has to …

The treatment of adolescents with severe anorexia nervosa may be improved by detention
under the Mental Health Act. The Human Rights Act has implications for the treatment of …

Anorexia nervosa is often chronic, with one of the highest death rates for psychological
conditions. Law can compel treatment, but is rarely invoked, at least formally (though the …

Background: The high mortality of severe anorexia nervosa causes clinicians to consider
any legal avenues for coercing acutely ill-patients to remain in treatment or re-feeding …

Compulsory treatment–treatment imposed by legal means–may be deemed necessary in
the management of anorexia nervosa. For bulimia nervosa, the characteristic symptoms of …

B_ ecause limited clinical in-formation was provided about the 22-year-old woman with
anorexia nervosa who died after treatment was withdrawn, as described by Drs. Philip C …

Anorexia nervosa is among the most lethal of all psychiatric illnesses and is increasingly
prevalent in children and adolescents. There are limited treatment options specifically for …