Oxford Casebook of Psychiatric Ethics

Dr. Stephen A. Green is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University where he taught medical students and psychiatry residents at every level of training, as well as other mental health professionals. He was Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Washington, D.C. Psychiatric Society and the Vice-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Green has published scientific articles about psychotherapy, psychosomatic issues, psychiatric ethics, and psychohistory in the American Journal of Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, General Hospital Psychiatry, Academic Psychiatry, and Pharos. He wrote Mind and body: the psychology of physical illness, published by the American Psychiatric Press, and co-edited An anthology of psychiatric ethics, Psychiatry: past, present, and prospect, and several editions of Psychiatric ethics, all published by Oxford University Press. He has contributed chapters to standard textbooks, including Psychiatric care ofthe medical patient, published by Oxford University Press, and Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry, published by Melbourne University Press.

• Preface Part I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Introduction Chapter 1: Moral Agency Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations Utilitarianism Deontological Theory (Kantianism) Principle-based Ethics (Principlism) Casuistry Virtue Ethics Ethics of Care Chapter 3: Ethical Reflection Part II: CASE HISTORY Chapter 4: Confidentiality Dual Agency Chapter 5: Informed Consent Truth-Telling Surrogate Decision-Making Chapter 6: Involuntary TreatmentInvoluntary HospitalizationInvoluntary MedicationThe Right to Refuse TreatmentThe Right to TreatmentThe Right to Effective TreatmentElectroconvulsive Therapy Chapter 7: Physician-Assisted Suicide Chapter 8: DiagnosisStigmatizationThe Situational DiagnosisPosttraumatic Stress Disorder Chapter 9: Academic and Educational Issues Chapter 10: Pharmacologic Issues Chapter 11: Research Chapter 12: Genetic Testing Chapter 13: Ethical Dimensions of the Therapeutic Relationship The Working AllianceTherapeutic BoundariesThe Impaired ClinicianPracticing Outside One's Area of ExpertisePatient Abandonment Chapter 14: Forensic Issues Chapter 15: Cultural Issues