The goal of my comments regarding the case study of Eve Hyde—presented in the
introduction of this symposium—is not first and foremost to resolve the conflict between …

Psychiatric inpatients with capacity may be treated paternalistically under the Mental Health
Act 1983. This violates bodily autonomy and causes potentially significant harm to health …

Under what circumstances, if any, is it ethically justified to hospitalize and treat people with
clinical features of mental disturbance, despite their objection? For many clinicians, people …

Let me begin by quoting from a short news article that appeared in the New York Times on
November 1, 1979. Entitled “Judge Curbs Forced Medication in Treatment of Mental …

In this paper I examine some of the significant moral concerns inherent in cases of treatment
refusal involving patients with psychotic disorders. In particular, I explore the relevance of …

This cluote from Mill highlights an important distinction for medical ethics: a distinction
between bodily and mental health. In this paper, we want to look at the ways that ethics and …

Jack P. Freer, in “Decision Making in an Incapacitated Patient,” presents the reader with a
compelling dilemma. A young patient with a long-standing history of opioid abuse and …

The author discusses the position of the plaintiffs in Rogers v. Okin, a legal case in which it
was argued that involuntarily committed mental patients have the right to refuse psychotropic …

This article reviews the ethical issues related to involuntary psychiatric treatment. These
include the conflicts between the principles of beneficence, autonomy and nonmaleficence …

Wenger and Halpern's timely article perceptively identifies some major clinical and ethical
issues that arise when one confronts a medical patient's refusal of a psychiatric consultation …