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Psychiatry — Law and Ethics

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Amnon Carmi

    1. Haifa, Israel

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  2. Stanley Schneider

    1. Summit Institute, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Michlala, Jerusalem Womens’s College, Yeshiva University, Jerusalem, Israel

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  3. Albert Hefez

    1. Kiriat Bialik, Israel

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Part of the book series: Medicolegal Library (MEDICOLEGAL, volume 5)

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Abnormal Approach to Abnormality

      • A. Carmi
      Pages 3-15

  3. Psychiatry and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. The Prostitution of Psychiatry: The 1930s in Germany and the 1980s in America

      • N. S. Lehrman
      Pages 36-47

    3. The Role of Social Energy for Man

      • G. Ammon
      Pages 48-55

  4. Psychiatry and Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    3. Patients Rights

      1. Indexing Civil Commitment Criteria in Psychiatric Emergency Rooms
        • S. P. Segal, M. A. Watson, L. S. Nelson
        Pages 91-100
      2. The Rights of a Psychiatric Patient in a Mental Hospital
        • R. R. Mayer
        Pages 101-105
      3. Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization and Civil Liberties — The Case of Israel
        • U. Aviram, D. Shnit
        Pages 106-115
      4. Civil Commitment Under Israeli Law
        • Y. Ginath, Y. Bar-El, D. A. Frenkel
        Pages 116-126
      5. Two Different Levels of Patient Autonomy
        • U. Lowental
        Pages 127-132
      6. The Rights of the Mental Patient Under Israeli Law
        • A. Levy, S. Davidson
        Pages 133-141
      7. Mental Health and Human Rights: Illegal Detention in Japan
        • E. Totsuka, T. Mitsuishi, Y. Kitamura
        Pages 142-147
      8. Clinical Perplexities in the Treatment of Treatment-Refusing Forensic Patients
        • P. Rodenhauser
        Pages 148-151
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The prostitution of the German psychiatric profession into a Nazi inquisitional tool was a major factor producing the total degradation of German medicine and moral­ ity. Its low point was its psychiatrists killing the patients they were sworn to care for, and its other physicians performing inhuman experiments on patients they were pledged to treat. In America also, psychiatry has been performing some of the functions of an In­ quisition: injuring innocents, both patients and dissenters, and exculpating crimi­ nals, terrorists especially. Innocents are being injured both in and out of psychiatric hospitals. The in­ creased fragmentation of care, the augmentation of its discontinuities, and assign­ ing the responsibility for organizing it to non-medical managers are some of the fac­ tors worsening the treatment results of our hospitals. Wrongful deaths, due largely to the specialty's intoxication with drugs while ignoring the importance of common human decency, have become a national scandal.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Haifa, Israel

    Amnon Carmi

  • Summit Institute, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Michlala, Jerusalem Womens’s College, Yeshiva University, Jerusalem, Israel

    Stanley Schneider

  • Kiriat Bialik, Israel

    Albert Hefez

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psychiatry — Law and Ethics

  • Editors: Amnon Carmi, Stanley Schneider, Albert Hefez

  • Series Title: Medicolegal Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82574-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-15742-7Published: 01 November 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-82574-3Published: 08 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0176-7151

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 318

  • Topics: Medical Law, Psychiatry, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law

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