Ethical issues in forensic psychiatry : minimizing harm /

• Main Author: Sadoff, Robert L., 1936-
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baird, John A.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, England : John Wiley, 2011.
• Subjects: Forensic psychiatry > Moral and ethical aspects.; Forensic Psychiatry > ethics.; Medicine.; Health.; Electronic books.

Ethical medical practice and treatment in psychiatry are based on the concept of first do no harm. However, this cannot, and does not, apply to forensic cases where there is no doctor-patient relationship and the forensic psychiatrist may indeed cause harm to the examinee. In this book, Robert Sadof...