Empirical ethics in psychiatry
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Empirical ethics in psychiatry
(International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry / edited by Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford ... [et al.])
Oxford University Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Psychiatry presents a unique array of difficult ethical questions. However, a major challenge is to approach psychiatry in a way that does justice to the real ethical issues. Recently there has been a growing body of research in empirical psychiatric ethics, and an increased interest in how empirical and philosophical methods can be combined. Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry demonstrates how ethics can engage more closely with the reality of psychiatric
practice and shows how empirical methodologies from the social sciences can help foster this link.
The book is divided into two sections. In the first section there are discussions of the possibility of empirical ethics from a theoretical standpoint and an overview of the history of empirical medical ethics in general. The second, larger section is made up of chapters, discussing specific research projects in empirical psychiatric ethics. The contributors reflect on their choice of method: how and why they combine empirical and philosophical work, and how the two approaches relate to each
other. The chapters in the second part thus have two purposes. The first is to present examples of empirical ethics in psychiatry; the second is to reflect on the way in which empirical research can support ethical analysis.
Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry is a unique contribution to bioethics and will be fascinating reading for all those working within the field, as well as mental health care professionals.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The possibility of empirical psychiatric ethics
- 3. Theory and methodology of empirical ethics: a pragmatic hermeneutic perspective
- 4. The origin and emergence of empirical ethics
- 5. Which empirical research, whose ethics? Articulating ideals in long term mental health care
- 6. Models of mental disorder: how philosophy and the social sciences can illuminate psychiatric ethics
- 7. Empirical ethics in action in practices of dementia care
- 8. Family carers, ethics and dementia: an empirical study
- 9. The advance directive conjuring trick and the person with dementia
- 10. Coercion in psychiatric care: a sociological and ethical case history analysis
- 11. Providing good care in the context of restrictive measures: the case of prevention of obesity in youngsters with Prader-Willi syndrome
- 12. Ulysses arrangements in psychiatry: from normative ethics to empirical research, and back
- 13. Treatment refusal in anorexia nervosa: a challenge to current concepts of capacity
- 14. Studying moral reasoning in forensic psychiatric patients
- 15. Patient incompetence in the practice of old age psychiatry: the significance of empirical research for the law
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