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2011-2012 PAH Ethics Didactic Series

Instructor
Dominic Sisti, PhD
Director, The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare
Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics
sistid@mail.med.upenn.edu

Overview
All ethics didactic sessions will be held from 11.00am-noon on 6 Spruce. Each session will have two parts: (1) two residents should be prepared to present the facts and ethical dimensions of a case (2) didactic content will cover a specific ethical or philosophical issue. Residents should complete the assigned readings to ensure thoughtful and critical discussion. Often there will appear news items worthy of discussion. If so, these will be sent to residents via the PAH Inpatient Chief Resident in advance of meetings.

 

2012

 
January 27, 2012 Competence & Refusal of Treatment
Reading: Gans, M. & Gunn, W.B. 2003. “End stage anorexia: Criteria for competence to refuse treatment.” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 26:677-695.
 
February 24, 2012

Involutary Hospitalization
Reading: Pele & Chodoff, "Involuntary Hospitalization & deinstitutionalization," in Bloch, S. & Green, S. eds. Psychiatric Ethics, 4th ed.  New York: Oxford University Press.
March [TBD] Suicide
Reading: Bloch & Heyd, "Suicide," in Bloch, S. & Green, S. eds. Psychiatric Ethics, 4th ed.  New York: Oxford University Press.
 
April 20, 2012 Forensics
Reading: Appelbaum, P. 2008. “Ethics and Forensic Psychiatry: Translating Principles Into Practice.” J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 36(2):195-200.
May 11, 2012

Boundaries
Readings: Clinton, B.K., Silverman, B.C., Brendel, D.H. 2010. “Patient-targeted googling: the ethics of searching online for patient information.” Harvard Review of Psychiatry 18(2):103-112.
Lazarus, A.A. 1994. “How Certain Boundaries and Ethics Diminish Therapeutic Effectiveness.” Ethics & Behavior 4(3):255-261.
2011

 
July 29, 2011

Behavioral Healthcare Ethics: Unique Issues
Readings: N/A
August 26, 2011

Foundations
Reading: Beauchamp, T. 2009. "Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatric Ethics," in Bloch, S. & Green, S. eds. Psychiatric Ethics, 4th ed.  New York: Oxford University Press.
September 9, 2011

Personality Disorders: Philosophical Issues
Reading: Charland, L. 2004. "Character, Moral Treatment & the Personality Disorders," in Radden, J. ed. The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion. New York: Oxford University Press.
October 7, 2011

Abuses of Psychiatry: Cases
Reading: Chodoff, P. 2009. "The Abuse of Psychiatry," in Bloch, S. & Green, S. eds. Psychiatric Ethics, 4th ed.  New York: Oxford University Press.
November, 11 2011 Working with Industry
Readings: Green, S. 2009. "The Psychiatrist and the Pharmaceutical Industry," in Bloch, S. & Green, S. eds. Psychiatric Ethics, 4th ed.  New York: Oxford University Press.
December 16, 2011

Gender
Readings: Kaplan, M. 1983. "A Woman's View of DSM-III,"  American Psychologist, July. pg 786-992.
Potter, N. "Gender" in Radden, J. ed. The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion. New York: Oxford University Press.