Mental health ethics : the human context /

Mental health ethics : the human context / edited by Phil Barker. - London : Routledge, 2011. - xviii, 378 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work provides an overview of traditional and contemporary ethical perspectives and critically examines a range of ethical and moral challenges present in contemporary 'psychiatric-mental' health services. Ethics are discussed in the following contexts: professional, care and treatment, the human context (addicts, young and old people, different cultures for instance), legal, and ideological.

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Psychiatric ethics.

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