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Ethical analysis of the new proposed mental health legislation in England and Wales

This paper ethically analyses arising out the proposed changes to the Mental Health Act for England and Wales. It looks in particular at thea shift in philosophy that the author claims has occurred with the proposals away from rights-focused principles to more utilitarian or outcome-focused principl...

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Autor principal: Lepping, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1855929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17430584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-2-5
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description This paper ethically analyses arising out the proposed changes to the Mental Health Act for England and Wales. It looks in particular at thea shift in philosophy that the author claims has occurred with the proposals away from rights-focused principles to more utilitarian or outcome-focused principles. It gives examples of these changes and explores itstheir consequences.
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spelling pubmed-18559292007-04-26 Ethical analysis of the new proposed mental health legislation in England and Wales Lepping, Peter Philos Ethics Humanit Med Research This paper ethically analyses arising out the proposed changes to the Mental Health Act for England and Wales. It looks in particular at thea shift in philosophy that the author claims has occurred with the proposals away from rights-focused principles to more utilitarian or outcome-focused principles. It gives examples of these changes and explores itstheir consequences. BioMed Central 2007-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC1855929/ /pubmed/17430584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-2-5 Text en Copyright © 2007 Lepping; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ethical analysis of the new proposed mental health legislation in England and Wales
title Ethical analysis of the new proposed mental health legislation in England and Wales
title_full Ethical analysis of the new proposed mental health legislation in England and Wales
title_fullStr Ethical analysis of the new proposed mental health legislation in England and Wales
title_full_unstemmed Ethical analysis of the new proposed mental health legislation in England and Wales
title_short Ethical analysis of the new proposed mental health legislation in England and Wales
title_sort ethical analysis of the new proposed mental health legislation in england and wales
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1855929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17430584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-2-5
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