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Psychiatric Ethics

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ISBN-10: 0199234310

ISBN-13: 9780199234318

Edition: 4th 2009

Authors: Sidney Bloch, Stephen Green

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Ethical issues are pivotal to the practice of psychiatry. Anyone involved in psychiatric practice and mental healthcare has to be aware of the range of ethical issues relevant to their profession. An increased professional commitment to accountability, in parallel with a growing "consumer" movement has paved the way for a creative engagement with the ethical movement. The bestselling 'Psychiatric Ethics' has carved out a niche for itself as the major comprehensive text and core reference in the field, covering a range of complex ethical dilemmas which face clinicians and researchers in their everyday practice. This new edition takes a fresh look at recent trends and developments at the…    
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Book details

List price: $69.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 552
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Stephen A. Green is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University, and has a private psychiatric practice in Washington, D.C. After completing Harvard College he received his M.D. degree from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, then completed a medical internship at the Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, and a residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA. He received a Masters Degree in Philosophy and Bioethics from Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Dr. Green has published articles on psychotherapy, psychosomatic issues, and the ethics of managed care. He has written two books about the…    

List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Historical, philosophical and social context
The scope of psychiatric ethics
A historical perspective
The philosophical basis of psychiatric ethics
Narrative ethics
Values, science and psychiatry
The nature of professions: implications for psychiatry
The abuse of psychiatry
Allocation of mental health resources
The psychiatrist and the pharmaceutical industry
Codes of ethics
Core issues in psychiatric ethics
Confidentiality
Involuntary hospitalization and deinstitutionalization
Suicide
Boundary violations
Psychiatric research
Ethics and psychiatric genetics
Neuroethics
Ethical aspects of clinical psychiatry
Ethical aspects of drug treatment
Ethical aspects of the psychotherapies
Ethics and child and adolescent psychiatry
Ethics in old age psychiatry
Ethics and forensic psychiatry
Ethics in community psychiatry
Trauma and post traumatic stress disorder
Consultation-liaison psychiatry
Appendix
Name index
Index