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

by NormanSartorius (Editor), HanfriedHelmchen (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $363.30

  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.