[International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine] Ethics in Psychiatry Volume 45 || Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Purposes in the USSR: A Case-Study and Personal Account of the Efforts to Bring Them to an End

✍ Scribed by Helmchen, Hanfried; Sartorius, Norman

• Book ID: 121754773
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: Dutch
• Weight: 328 KB
• Edition: 2010
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 9048187214
• DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8721-8_29

✦ Synopsis

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.