The Treatability Requirement in Psychopathy: A New Ethical Dilemma?
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Millard, D.W.Keywords
AggressionBehavior Disorders
Diagnosis
Ethics
Health
Involuntary Commitment
Legislation
Medical Ethics
Mental Health
Prognosis
Psychiatric Diagnosis
Psychiatry
Psychology
Right to Treatment
Rights
Uncertainty
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Abstract
The Mental Health Act 1983 for England and Wales includes a treatability requirement, first introduced in the Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982, that outlaws compulsory admission of a patient for treatment of "psychopathic disorder or mental impairment" unless "such treatment is likely to alleviate or prevent a deterioration of his condition." The author contends that this requirement raises a new ethical dilemma for psychiatry because of the uncertainty associated with predicting the outcome of psychopathic disorder. (KIE abstract)Date
2015-05-05Identifier
oai:repository.library.georgetown.edu:10822/72573910.1136/jme.10.2.88
Journal of Medical Ethics. 1984 Jun; 10(2): 88-90.
0306-6800
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.10.2.88
http://hdl.handle.net/10822/725739