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Review of Ethics in Mental Health Research by James M. DuBois

Ronald Pies1,2 email

1Department of Psychiatry, S.U.N.Y. Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, N.Y. 13210, USA

2Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02111, USA

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Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2008, 3:11doi:10.1186/1747-5341-3-11

Published: 3 April 2008

Abstract

The burgeoning field of medical ethics raises complicated questions for mental health researchers. The critical issues of risk assessment, beneficence, and the moral duties researchers owe their patients are analyzed in James DuBois's well written Ethics in Mental Health Research.


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