Recent topics on ethical issues in psychiatry, mental care and welfare

• Published in: Psychiatria et neurologia Japonica Vol. 104; no. 9; p. 725
• Main Author: Takahashi, Kiyohisa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Japan 2002
• Subjects: Confidentiality - standards; Epidemiologic Methods; Ethics, Medical; Human Genome Project; Humans; Informed Consent - standards; Japan; Japan

This lecture focuses on several ethical issues on psychiatry research and psychiatric practice. The most important issue in ethics is informed consent in both the national guidelines on ethics in genomic study and epidemiological studies determined by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labor, Minis...