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The Meeting of Psychiatry and Humanities: An Overview

Concerns regarding ethics of psychiatric research were a critical point in research when lots of news was announced about human rights abuses in the Nazi Germany. However, even nowadays, psychiatric research involving people suffering from different types of psychiatric disorders can still be distor...

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Autores principales: Akhondzadeh, Shahin, Abbasi, Seyed Hesameddin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713884/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23908719
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Sumario:Concerns regarding ethics of psychiatric research were a critical point in research when lots of news was announced about human rights abuses in the Nazi Germany. However, even nowadays, psychiatric research involving people suffering from different types of psychiatric disorders can still be distorted and, rather than fulfilling its promise of improved understanding of psychiatric disorder and its treatment, can result in serious harm to patients who participated in these investigations. This review focuses on some important ethical aspects in psychiatric research.