Ethics in Psychiatry: European Contributions (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine Book 45)

Ethics in Psychiatry: (1) presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research; (2) relates ethical issues to changes and challenges of society; (3) examines the application of general ethics to specific psychiatric problems and relates these to moral implications of psychiatric practice; (4) deals with recently arising ethical problems; (5) contains contributions of leading European ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, historians and psychiatrists; (6) provides a basis for the exploration of culture-bound influences on morals, manners and customs in the light of ethical principles of global validity. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Societal Framework of Psychiatry....Pages 3-10 Stigmatisation of People with Mental Illness and of Psychiatric Institutions....Pages 11-32 Economical Framework of Psychiatric Care....Pages 33-54 Conflicts of Interest....Pages 55-72 Between Legislation and Bioethics: The European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine....Pages 73-96 Ethics Committees for Clinical Research – The West-European Paradigm....Pages 97-107 Clinical Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultation in Psychiatry....Pages 109-125 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Ethical Principles in Psychiatry: The Declarations of Hawaii and Madrid....Pages 129-137 Informed Consent in Psychiatric Practice....Pages 139-146 Advance Directives: Balancing Patient’s Self-Determination with Professional Paternalism....Pages 147-159 Confidentiality....Pages 161-179 Justice in Access to and Distribution of Resources in Psychiatry and Mental Health Care....Pages 181-196 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 Ethics of Diagnosis and Classification in Psychiatry....Pages 199-207 Competence Assessment....Pages 209-226 General Overview of Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Treatment....Pages 227-234 Prevention and Early Treatment....Pages 235-262 Ethical Implications of Psychopharmacotherapy....Pages 263-279 Ethical Problems in Psychotherapy....Pages 281-297 Neuromodulation – ECT, rTMS, DBS....Pages 299-320 ‘Coercive’ Measures....Pages 321-340 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 Ethics of Deinstitutionalization....Pages 341-361 Ethical Issues in Forensic and Prison Psychiatry....Pages 363-380 Treatment of Substance Dependence....Pages 381-400 Dementia and End-of-Life Decisions: Ethical Issues – A Perspective from The Netherlands....Pages 401-420 Ethics of Research with Decisionally Impaired Patients....Pages 421-435 Ethical Concerns in Carrying Out Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity....Pages 437-458 Genetics – Ethical Implications of Research, Diagnostics and Counseling....Pages 459-484 Front Matter....Pages 485-485 Political Abuse of Psychiatry....Pages 487-488 Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Purposes in the USSR: A Case-Study and Personal Account of the Efforts to Bring Them to an End....Pages 489-507 (Neuro-)Enhancement....Pages 509-530 Front Matter....Pages 531-531 Teaching Ethics in Psychiatry....Pages 533-543 Front Matter....Pages 545-545 Summary and Conclusions....Pages 547-550 Back Matter....Pages 551-573 Ethics in Psychiatry: (1) presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research; (2) relates ethical issues to changes and challenges of society; (3) examines the application of general ethics to specific psychiatric problems and relates these to moral implications of psychiatry practice; (4) deals with recently arising ethical problems; (5) contains contributions of leading European ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, historians and psychiatrists; (6) provides a basis for the exploration of culture-bound influences on morals, manners and customs in the light of ethical principles of global validity. Pt. 1. The context pt. 2. Principles of ethics in psychiatry pt. 3. The applications of the ethical principles in psychiatric practice and research pt. 4. Non-medical uses of psychiatry pt. 5. Teaching ethics in psychiatry pt. 6. Conclusions and summary.