TY - JOUR
T1 - Some ethical tradeoffs in mental health legislation and practice.
AU - Govind, Nikhil
PY - 2012/7/1
Y1 - 2012/7/1
N2 - An examination of the intersection of legal and medical discourses, particularly in the realm of mental health legislation, provides a rich opportunity to clarify fundamental ethical conflicts. This essay studies one such legal discourse, the draft amendments to the Mental Health Act (1987), to demonstrate that the realm of ethical decision-making is constrained not only by pragmatic administrative, training and financial issues but also by the very contradictions that are necessarily at the heart of any ethically conducted project, however well intentioned and reasoned.
AB - An examination of the intersection of legal and medical discourses, particularly in the realm of mental health legislation, provides a rich opportunity to clarify fundamental ethical conflicts. This essay studies one such legal discourse, the draft amendments to the Mental Health Act (1987), to demonstrate that the realm of ethical decision-making is constrained not only by pragmatic administrative, training and financial issues but also by the very contradictions that are necessarily at the heart of any ethically conducted project, however well intentioned and reasoned.
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U2 - 10.20529/ijme.2012.064
DO - 10.20529/ijme.2012.064
M3 - Article
C2 - 22864081
AN - SCOPUS:84877099966
SN - 0974-8466
VL - 9
SP - 196
EP - 199
JO - Indian journal of medical ethics
JF - Indian journal of medical ethics
IS - 3
ER -
