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Author:   Guy Widdershoven (Professor of Ethics of Health Care and Scientific Director of the School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), University of Maastricht, The Netherlands) ,  John McMillan (Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Hull, UK) ,  Tony Hope (Professor of Medical Ethics, ETHOX Centre, University of Oxford, UK) ,  Lieke van der Scheer (Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.400kg
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9780199297368

ISBN 10:   0199297363
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   14 February 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Guy Widdershoven, John McMillan, Tony Hope & Lieke van der Scheer: Introduction 2: John McMillan & Tony Hope: The possibility of empirical psychiatric ethics 3: Guy Widdershoven & Lieke van der Scheer: Theory and methodology of empirical ethics: a pragmatic hermeneutic perspective 4: Pascal Borry, Paul Schotsmans & Kris Dierickx: The origin and emergence of empirical ethics 5: Jeannette Pols: Which empirical research, whose ethics? Articulating ideals in long term mental health care 6: Anthony Colombo: Models of mental disorder: how philosophy and the social sciences can illuminate psychiatric ethics 7: Minke Goldsteen: Empirical ethics in action in practices of dementia care 8: Clive Baldwin: Family carers, ethics and dementia: an empirical study 9: Julian C Hughes & Steven R Sabat: The advance directive conjuring trick and the person with dementia 10: Marian Verkerk, Louis Polstra & Marlieke de Jonge: Coercion in psychiatric care: a sociological and ethical case history analysis 11: Rob H van Hooren, H W van den Borne, Leopold M G Curfs & Guy Widdershoven: Providing good care in the context of restrictive measures: the case of prevention of obesity in youngsters with Prader-Willi syndrome 12: Ine Gremmen: Ulysses arrangements in psychiatry: from normative ethics to empirical research, and back 13: Jacinta Tan & Tony Hope: Treatment refusal in anorexia nervosa: a challenge to current concepts of capacity 14: Gwen Adshead, Christine Brown, Eva Skoe, Jonathan Glover & Sarah Nicholson: Studying moral reasoning in forensic psychiatric patients 15: Sander Welie: Patient incompetence in the practice of old age psychiatry: the significance of empirical research for the law

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As the interdisciplinary field of bioethics evolves and advances, it is books like this that will encourage professionals to take a thoughtful look at collaborating with seemingly disparate disciplines. Doody's Notes

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Guy Widdershoven is Professor of Ethics of Health Care and Scientific Director of the School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI) at Maastricht University. His research subject is hermeneutic ethics, especially in the area of chronic care (elderly care, psychiatry and care for people with an intellectual disability). He is one of the editors, with Richard Ashcroft, Anneke Lucassen, Michael Parker and Marian Verkerk of Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Tony Hope is Professor of Medical Ethics at the Ethox Centre of the University of Oxford, and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist. He has carried out research in basic neuroscience and Alzheimer's Disease. Since 1990 he has focused on clinical ethics. His books include: the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (editions 1-4); Manage Your Mind; Medical Ethics and Law: the Core Curriculum; and Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction. John McMillan is Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics at the Hull-York Medical School and the Philosophy Department, University of Hull. He is a deputy director of the Institute of Applied Ethics, University of Hull. His publications include articles and book chapters on the philosophy of psychiatry and Bioethics. He is co-editor of The Principles of Healthcare Ethics (with Richard Ashcroft, Angus Dawson and Heather Draper; 2007). He is co-author of Consciousness and Intentionality (with Grant Gillett; 2001). Lieke van der Scheer studied philosophy and wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on Unregulated Morality: Dewey's Concept of Experience as a Basis for Health Ethics (in Dutch). Her publications concern the methodology and the theory of empirical ethical research as well as the ethical aspect of care practice. Besides teaching ethics at the Faculty Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University, she also teaches and trains professionals in the care sector. She is a member of various institutional review boards in charge of ethically testing medical research with human subjects.

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