Mental Capacity in Relationship

Camillia Kong is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Kent and research associate at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. Her research interests include philosophical issues surrounding mental disorder, mental capacity, and the ethics of psychiatry. She was awarded funding for research into this book from the British Academy.

• 1. Problems with mental capacity; 2. Mental capacity, legal capacity, and relational rights; 3. Relational autonomy and the promotion of decisional capacity; 4. Procedural reasoning and the social space of reasons in capacity assessments; 5. Ethical duties of support and intervention; 6. Hermeneutic competence and the dialogical conditions of capacity; 7. Rethinking capacity.

'In summary, this is an ambitious and timely book which provides an important theoretical contribution to the ongoing debates on the MCA 2005 [Mental Capacity Act] and the implications of the CRPD [Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities]. It will appeal to lawyers, philosophers, ethicists, and practitioners given its engagement and reflection on both theory and practice.' Beverly Clough, Medical Law Review