Deep brain stimulation and revising the Mental Health Act: the case for intervention-specific safeguards

Under the current Mental Health Act of England and Wales, it is lawful to perform deep brain stimulation in the absence of consent and independent approval. We argue against the Care Quality Commission's preferred strategy of addressing this problematic issue, and offer recommendations for deep...

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Autores principales: Pugh, Jonathan, Aziz, Tipu, Herring, Jonathan, Savulescu, Julian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30774052
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.200
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description Under the current Mental Health Act of England and Wales, it is lawful to perform deep brain stimulation in the absence of consent and independent approval. We argue against the Care Quality Commission's preferred strategy of addressing this problematic issue, and offer recommendations for deep brain stimulation-specific provisions in a revised Mental Health Act. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: T.A. is a paid consultant for Boston Scientific, Medtronic and St. Jude Medical. He has received honoraria from Abbott, Boston and Medtronics and served as consultant to all three.
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spelling pubmed-64200522019-03-26 Deep brain stimulation and revising the Mental Health Act: the case for intervention-specific safeguards Pugh, Jonathan Aziz, Tipu Herring, Jonathan Savulescu, Julian Br J Psychiatry Analysis Under the current Mental Health Act of England and Wales, it is lawful to perform deep brain stimulation in the absence of consent and independent approval. We argue against the Care Quality Commission's preferred strategy of addressing this problematic issue, and offer recommendations for deep brain stimulation-specific provisions in a revised Mental Health Act. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: T.A. is a paid consultant for Boston Scientific, Medtronic and St. Jude Medical. He has received honoraria from Abbott, Boston and Medtronics and served as consultant to all three. Cambridge University Press 2019-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6420052/ /pubmed/30774052 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.200 Text en © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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