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.