The book:
- presents a comprehensive overview of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research;
- links ethical issues to changes and societal challenges;
- examines the application of general ethics to specific psychiatric problems and relates these to the moral implications of psychiatric practice;
- addresses recently emerging ethical issues;
- contains articles by leading European ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, historians and psychiatrists;
- provides a basis for examining cultural influences on morals, customs and habits in the light of ethical principles of global relevance.