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Ethics in Psychiatry: European Contributions

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2010
ISBN
9048187206, 9789048187201, 9789048187218
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-8721-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6399957 bytes)
Series
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 45
Edition
1
Pages
574\574
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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