1. Medicalisation and participation in legal capacity determinations in Chile.
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Marshall, Pablo and Jiménez, Guillermo
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INTELLECTUAL disabilities , *PEOPLE with disabilities , *MEDICALIZATION , *JURISDICTION , *RESEARCH , *SOCIOLOGY , *READABILITY (Literary style) , *CAPACITY (Law) , *RESEARCH methodology , *MEDICAL cooperation , *EVALUATION research , *COMPARATIVE studies - Abstract
This paper provides an examination of the process used by ordinary courts in Chile when making legal capacity determinations. It provides an up-to-date account of various aspects of law and procedure related to legal capacity in this jurisdiction. Also, by drawing on semi-structured interviews with judges, this paper examines judicial understandings of legal capacity decision-making focusing on problems related to the medicalisation of mental disability and the participation of persons with disabilities in legal capacity procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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