Whilst current mental health care provision has made a substantial move towards
empowering its users it retains a paternalistic approach with legislation such as 'supervised …

Соответственно определению, данному в DSM-III-R, состояния, не относящиеся к
психическим расстройствам, связаны с системой, обеспечивающей заботу о …

GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine
central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action …

This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of a person—a vexed question in
contemporary philosophy. The author begins by questioning the methodology of thought …

Gale Stokes has written an excellent account of the collapse of communism in Eastern
Europe. Its major strengths are the way Stokes builds historical context, rooting events in the …

In my last article I considered arguments that medicine didnot need moral philosophy. Here I
consider several common sceptical arguments suggesting that useful discussion about …

Now in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on
the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that …

Few issues, if any, in mental health have received such widespread attention as the topic of
violence and mental illness. It is of long-standing controversy [1], and views have shifted …

The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has
achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical …

Currently, it is common practice among the child psychiatric establishment to prescribe
powerful and potentially addictive drugs to children who have emotional or behavioural …