Ethical Aspects of Psychiatry

Laura Roberts; Jinger Hoop; Laura Dunn

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Chapter 42. Ethical Aspects of Psychiatry

Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A.; Jinger G. Hoop, M.D., M.F.A.; Laura B. Dunn, M.D.

DOI: 10.1176/appi.books.9781585623402.337194

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Ethics is an endeavor. It refers to ways of understanding what is good and right in human experience. It is about discernment, knowledge, and self-reflection, and it is sustained through seeking, clarifying, and translating. It is the concrete expression of moral ideals in everyday life. Ethics is about meaning, and it is about action.

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Several key principles apply to the exercise of moral behavior and are especially applicable to medical ethics. The movement toward "parity" legislation to ensure that provision of care for mental illness is analogous to care for systemic illness illustrates the ethical principle of

Principle-based ethics (Beauchamp and Childress 2001) advocates a technique of balancing four ethical principles in the actions of a particular case. Which of the following is not one of the four principles emphasized in this model?

In the "four-topics method" of ethical decision making (Jonsen et al. 1998), data gathering about a particular dilemma is first accomplished and ethical reasoning is then applied. The case of a terminal cancer patient who refuses chemotherapy represents a conflict between which two of this model's four topics?

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