Ethical Dilemma in Psychiatry

Perihan Elif EKMEKCI graduated from the Medical Faculty of Ankara University in 1995. She had her PhD in History of Medicine and Ethics from Ankara University in 2014. Currently she is an associate professor and head of History of Medicine and Ethics department at TOBB ETU Faculty of Medicine She was a research fellow in Imperial College Tanaka Business School, London, UK in 2006. She has been a Fogarty Fellow at Harvard University and had her Fogarty/NIH Program Master's Certification in Research Ethics in 2014. She has been a fellow of WIRB International IRB Western Institutional Review Board Research Ethics Training Program, Seattle Washington (USA) in 2016. She served as the head of EU relations department of Ministry of Health Turkey (2007-2016) and developed several projects in alliance with the EU. She was the Turkish representative for the European Center for Disease Control Advisory Board and served in this position between years 2011-2016. Currently she is the chair of the International Unit in Bioethics/ WMA Cooperation Center and deputy dean of TOBB ETU Faculty of Medicine. She is chairing the Intuitional Review Board of TOBB ETU, and she is a member of open science committee of TOBB ETU. She is a member of World Association for Medical Law and the International Forum of Teachers of the International Unit in Bioethics. She has several publications in distinguished journals on ethics and history of 2 medicine. Dr Ekmekci is the co-author of the book titled “Artificial intelligence and Bioethics” published by Springer in 2020. She is teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on history of medicine and ethics.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1 . History of Psychiatry.- Chapter 2. A brief history and milestones of psychiatric ethics.- Chapter 3. Ethical Issues and Ethical Problems in Psychiatry.- Chapter 4. Ethical Reasoning Methodology.- Chapter 5. Case Discussions.- Conclusion.