BOOKS BY CATEGORY
Your Account
Is evidence-based psychiatry ethical?
Price
Quantity
€63.44
(To see other currencies, click on price)
Paperback / softback
Add to basket  

MORE ABOUT THIS BOOK

Main description:

Rated as one of the top 15 breakthroughs in medicine over the last 150 years, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become highly influential in medicine. Put simply, EBM promotes a seemingly irrefutable, principle: that decision-making in medical practice should be based, as much as possible, on the most up-to-date research findings. EBM has been particularly popular within psychiatry, a field that is haunted by a legacy of controversial interventions. For advocates,
anchoring psychiatric practice in research data makes psychiatry more scientific valid and ethically legitimate. Few, however, have questioned whether EBM, a concept pioneered by those working in other areas of medicine, can be applied to psychiatric disorders.

In this groundbreaking book, the Canadian psychiatrist and ethicist Mona Gupta analyzes the basic assumptions of EBM, and critically examines their applicability to psychiatry. By highlighting the basic ethical tensions between psychiatry and EBM, the author addresses the fundamental and controversial question - should psychiatrists practice evidence-based medicine at all?


Contents:

1. What does evidence have to do with ethics? ; 2. What is evidence-based medicine? ; 3. Ethical values and evidence-based medicine: the debate ; 4. Psychiatry and evidence-based psychiatry ; 5. The critique of evidence-based psychiatry ; 6. The ethics of EBM ; 7. EBM experts talk about ethics, evidence-based medicine, and psychiatry ; 8. Is evidence-based psychiatric practice, ethical practice? ; 9. Conclusions ; Appendix


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780199641116
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: June, 2014
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 153.00 x 233.00 x 13.00
Weight: 336g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Ethics, Neuroscience, Psychiatry
Related books
From the same series

CUSTOMER REVIEWS

Average Rating