| 书目名称 | Forensic Ethics and the Expert Witness | | 编辑 | Philip J. Candilis,Robert Weinstock,Richard Martin | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Details possible ethical situations and pitfalls that forensic psychiatric experts would commonly encounter when making a court testimony.Supports the foundations of medical ethics that balance duties | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Why a book about the ethics of forensic psychiatry and related disciplines? Most psychiatrists, after all, learn something in their training about the ethics of medical practice in general and of the practice of psychiatry in particular. Do the maxims that steer all physicians through the ethical complexities of clinical medicine not provide equally effective guidance to clinical and scientific expert witnesses? The answer, in short, is “No. ” When psychiatrists, for example, enter the realm of the expert witness, they tread on moral terrain with a significantly different topography than the paths to which they are accustomed in their clinical roles. Clinical psych- trists owe primary allegiance to their patients’interests; for them the prin- ples of beneficence (doing good) and non-maleficence (avoiding harm) will generally take priority over all other considerations. For psychiatrists who serve as experts, however, there are no patients to whom fidelity is due. There are only persons being evaluated for the sake of providing opinions to third parties. Perhaps a defendant in a criminal case, a plaintiff in a tort action, or a claimant in an adjudication of disability benefits or w | | 出版日期 | Book 2007 | | 关键词 | Encounter; Ethics Codes; Forensic Psychiatry; ethics; justice; law; morality; psychiatry; psychology; will | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35383-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-4200-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-35383-8 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag US 2007 |
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