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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818229703321

Autore

Gupta Mona

Titolo

Is evidence-based psychiatry ethical? / / Mona Gupta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-102831-2

0-19-174280-5

0-19-102830-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Evidence-based psychiatry - Moral and ethical aspects

Psychiatry - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Is Evidence-based Psychiatry Ethical?; Series; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1 What does evidence have to do with ethics?; 2 What is evidence-based medicine?; 3 Values and evidence-based medicine: the debate; 4 Psychiatry and evidence-based psychiatry; 5 The critique of evidence-based psychiatry; 6 The ethics of evidence-based medicine; 7 Experts talk about ethics, evidence-based medicine, and psychiatry; 8 Is evidence-based psychiatric practice ethical?; 9 Conclusions; Appendix 1; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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, anchoringpsychiatric practice in research data makes psychiatry more scientific valid and ethically legitimate. Few, however, have