ScattergoodEthics

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The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare is dedicated to applied research and scholarship in all areas of behavioral healthcare ethics. Housed at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, the ScattergoodEthics Program is a regional and national effort that welcomes all those active in the field of behavioral healthcare.
The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare is dedicated to applied research and scholarship in all areas of behavioral healthcare ethics. Housed at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, the ScattergoodEthics Program is a regional and national effort that welcomes all those active in the field of behavioral healthcare.
The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare is dedicated to applied research and scholarship in all areas of behavioral healthcare ethics. Housed at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, the ScattergoodEthics Program is a regional and national effort that welcomes all those active in the field of behavioral healthcare.
The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare is dedicated to applied research and scholarship in all areas of behavioral healthcare ethics. Housed at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, the ScattergoodEthics Program is a regional and national effort that welcomes all those active in the field of behavioral healthcare.

Commentary

Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry: Minimzing Harm by Robert L. Sadoff, MD

 

            

 The concept of primum non nocere—first, do no harm—is the basis for ethical medical practice and treatment in psychiatry. However, it cannot, and does not, apply to forensic cases where there is no doctor-patient relationship and the forensic psychiatrist may indeed cause harm to the examinee.  more...

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Mental Health Reform in America: A Brief Biography of Thomas Scattergood

Thomas Scattergood had been speaking to fellow Quakers about mental illness. These conversations "awaked a tender, sympathetic feeling for the welfare of this afflicted class"  more...

Research

Categories & Controversies: The Ethical Dimensions of the DSM-5

The ScattergoodEthics Program has convened a working group to examine ethical issues emerging from the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), which will be published in May 2013. more...

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