Empirical ethics in psychiatry / edited by Guy Widdershoven [and 3 others].
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 empirica...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199297363 9780199297368 |