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Mental Health

Article/Commentary
06/21/05 The Ethics of Amputation by Choice
Australian Philosophers argue that it is morally permissible for people to have healthy limbs amputated by choice.
06/27/05 Brain Pacemaker Lifts Depression
09/30/05 Tense? Lonely? There's Promise in a Pill
The medicalization of life: a pill to chill, a pill to perk up; a pill for more sex, a pill for fewer babies; a pill for boldness, a pill for stress...a pill for...
1 in 6 Iraq Veterans Is Found to Suffer Stress-Related Disorder
Study shows quicker diagnosis, but continuing need to make returning soldiers comfortable about seeking help for post traumatic stress disorder. The New York Times
Keywords: PTSD, Stress
A Flood of Troubled Soldiers in the Offing
The nation's hard-pressed health care system for veterans faces a potential deluge of soldiers returning from Iraq with serious mental health problems . The New York Times
Keywords: PTSD, Stress, Military
Asian immigrants and mental health
Care at Odds Asian immigrants and mental health by M. L. Codman-Wilson
Brain-Based Values
Patricia Churchland, author of Neurophilosophy reviews Michael S. Gazzaniga's book "The Ethical Brain." Review summarizes Gazzaniga's discussion about Free-Will as it relates to persons with brain-chemical abnormalities
Ending Discrimination in Health Insurance - Mental Health
From the American Psychological Association - Discrimination in insurance for mental health services must end if all Americans are to receive truly fair and equitable health care.
Ensuring voting rights for the aging and mentally ill
The ethics of persons with mental illness voting. MSNBC
Module 11 Facilities Have Myriad Policies (31K)
Facilities Have Myriad Policies On Mentally Retarded Clients Having Sex
Module 11 Sexuality and People with Psychiatric Disabilities (32K)
Law/Policy
Module 07 New Ruling Protects Psychiatrist
The case of Althaus v. Judith Cohen, M.D., and University of Pittsburgh Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Nos. 70 &71 W.D. Appeal Docket 1998, J-32-1999
Keywords: Althaus
Web Resource
Flordian Mental Health Institute
Website with mental health ethics bibligraphy
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