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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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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. |
spellingShingle | Research Lepping, Peter 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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