Is evidence-based psychiatry ethical? / / Mona Gupta

• Autore: Gupta Mona
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89
• Soggetto topico: Evidence-based psychiatry - Moral and ethical aspects; Psychiatry - Moral and ethical aspects
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Is evidence-based psychiatry ethical
• ISBN: 0-19-102831-2; 0-19-174280-5; 0-19-102830-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786418403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.