Psychiatric Ethics
2nd Edition
Published on 1. March 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
569 pages
978-0-19-261864-1 (ISBN)
Description
During the 1980s the psychiatric profession has come to recognize more than ever before the many complex ethical dilemmas which face the clinician (and the researcher) in their everyday practice. When the first edition of this book was published it served as one of the first authoritative accounts of this fast-developing subject. This new edition continues in this tradition but now includes new chapters to take into account recent trends and developments in the interface between ethics and psychiatric practice. Thus, new chapters cover: a conceptual analysis of what mental illness is, abuses of psychiatry in Japan and Nazi Germany, ethical aspects of psychogeriatrics, deinstitutionalization and psychiatry as a profession. Where appropriate, chapters from the first edition have been thoroughly revised and updated. Similarly, the appendix which contains a number of codes of ethics has been brought up to date. All contributors to this second edition have taken into account contemporary trends and developments in psychiatry and have combined to produce a volume which will continue to provide a systematic and comprehensive account of the subject.
The book should be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and nurses, and to all those involved in the care of the mentally ill.
The book should be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and nurses, and to all those involved in the care of the mentally ill.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-261864-1 (9780192618641)
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Content
A historical perspective; the philosophical basis of psychiatric ethics; the social dimension; psychiatry as a profession; the concept of disease; psychiatric diagnosis as an ethical problem; ethical aspects of psychotherapy; ethical aspects of drug treatment; ethical aspects of the physical manipulation of the brain; ethical aspects of sexuality and sex therapy; the ethics of suicide; the ethics of involuntary hospitalization; the ethics of deinstitutionalization; confidentiality in psychiatry; ethics and child psychiatry; ethics and psychogeriatrics; ethics and forensic psychiatry; ethics and psychiatric research; training in psychiatric ethics; the responsibility of the psychiatrist to his society; psychiatry in the Nazi era; ethical issues in the delivery of mental health service - abuses in Japan; the political misuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.