PSYCHIATRIC ETHICS

by Bloch, Sidney; Chodoff, Paul; Green, Stephen A.

• ISBN13: 9780192628992
• ISBN10: 0192628992
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Consideration of ethics has established a firm place in the affairs of psychiatrists. An increased professional commitment to accountability, together with a growing "consumer" movement has paved the way for a creative engagement with the ethical movement. Psychiatric Ethics has carved out a niche for itself as a major comprehensive text and core reference covering the many 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 interface between ethics and psychiatric practice.For this edition, Sydney Bloch and Paul Chodoff are joined by Stephen Green, a clinical professor in ethics and psychiatry at Georgetown University, in leading 29 of the finest scholars in the field from around the world. Eleven new contributors join the team of authors. They include Drs. Beauchamp, Gutheils, Sabin, McGuffin, Szmulter, Gabbard and Holmes. Since the second edition, the editors have observed several emerging aspects of psychiatric practice requiring coverage. As a result, six new chapters have been added covering the ethical aspects of community psychiatry, managed care, psychiatric genetics, resource allocation, codes of ethics and boundary violations. All others chapters have been fully revised and updated.The book will continue to be essential reading for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, as well as of interest to ethicists, policy makers, managers and lawyers.

Author Biography

Sydney Bloch is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Paul Chodoff is Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University.
Stephen Green is a Clinical Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

A historical perspective

The philosophical basis of psychiatric ethics

Misuse and abuse of psychiatry:an overview

Psychiatry as a profession

Codes of ethics in psychiatry

Confidentiality in psychiatry

Boundary violations

Analytic philosophy,brain science and the concept of disorder

Psychiatry Diagnosis as an ethical problem

Ethical aspects of the psychotherapies

Clinical aspects of drug treatments

Ethical aspects of the physical manipulation of the brain

Ethics and child psychiatry

Ethics in old age psychiatry

Ethics and forensic psychiatry

Ethics in community psychiatry

Ethical issues in mental health resource allocations

The ethics of managed mental health care

The ethics of involuntary treatment and deinstitutionalisation

The ethics of suicide

Ethics and psychiatric research

Ethics and psychiatric genetics

Teaching psychiatric ethics

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