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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the second 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ Research Group on Health a
 nd Law (RGHL) seminar of the year delivered by Dr. Agnieszka Doll\, Postdo
 ctoral Fellow with the RGHL.\n\nSpace is limited. Kindly RSVP by emailing 
 rghl.law [at] mcgill.ca.\n\nThis event is eligible for inclusion as 1.5 ho
 urs of continuing legal education as reported by members of the Barreau du
  Québec.\n\nAbstract\n\nCritical mental health and socio-legal scholars ha
 ve demonstrated that psychiatric expert knowledge is foundational to judic
 ial decision making in a broad range of cases\, and that judges rely uncri
 tically on facts and diagnoses established by psychiatrists. Yet psychiatr
 ists also tend to rely uncritically on facts established by other actors i
 n medical files.\n\nUsing ethnographic research methods\, I examine how fa
 cts and truths about mental illness and dangerousness are produced in invo
 luntary admission (also called civil commitment) cases in Poland. In this 
 presentation\, I will look specifically at the role of paramedics\, who\, 
 as a first response team\, generate facts about mental illness. These fact
 s are then featured in the work of other medical and legal professionals i
 nvolved in these cases.\n\nThe presentation will focus on how seemingly ob
 jective fact-finding by paramedics and other professionals is shaped by in
 stitutional priorities within the context of civil commitment\, with an im
 portant impact on practice. Engaging with these technicalities of knowledg
 e and document production allows to move beyond arguments about ‘implicit 
 bias’ in attitudes of individual decisionmakers\, and toward an understand
 ing of how legal and psychiatric opinions are systemically generated. The 
 presentation will conclude with commentaries on gaps and inadequacies with
 in current approaches to civil commitment that flow from these insights.\n
 \nAbout the speaker\n\nDr. Agnieszka Doll is a Postdoctoral Fellow with th
 e Research Group on Health and Law at 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ's Faculty of Law. 
 Before entering academia\, she was a lawyer in Poland. Her research focuse
 s on legal and social regimes pertaining to psychiatric involuntary hospit
 alization\, processes of knowledge production\, professional practices\, i
 nstitutions\, socio-legal studies\, gender and law\, and qualitative and f
 eminist methodologies. Agnieszka Doll is particularly interested in the me
 dico-legal borderland. In her doctoral thesis\, Lawyering for the ‘Mad’: I
 nstitutional Ethnography of Involuntary Admission to Psychiatric Facilitie
 s in Poland\, she explored ethnographically the socio-legal organization o
 f the procedure for involuntary psychiatric admission decisions in Poland\
 , and the work of legal aid lawyers who represent people subjected to forc
 ed institutionalization. Currently she is developing a project on gender a
 nd post-psychiatric hospital reintegration.\n\n \n
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LOCATION:NCDH 200\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Pathology\, Experts and the Law: Lessons from a case study of invol
 untary admission to psychiatric facilities
URL:/law/channels/event/pathology-experts-and-law-less
 ons-case-study-involuntary-admission-psychiatric-facilities-302133
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