Chapter Rationality, Diagnosis, and Patient Autonomy in Psychiatry

• Main Author: Werendly van Staden, Cornelius (auth)
• Other Authors: Fulford, K. W. M. (auth), Z. Sadler, John (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2014
• Subjects: Medical ethics & professional conduct; Psychiatry; ethics; psychiatry; psychiatric ethics; Autism; Classification of mental disorders; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Epistemology; Informed consent; Mental disorder; Privacy policy; Rationality
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Psychiatrists have written much about the explosive expansion of scientific knowledge of the brain which developed over the late 20th century and the early 21st century. Comparatively little has been written within the field of psychiatry about the changes in society and world culture over this same...