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What is “Person”

Chapter 11
Ethics in Research Practice and Innovation
The term is taken in the sense that Kant ascribes to “ rational beings because their nature already marks them out as an end in itself, that is, as something that may not be used merely as means, and hence so far limits all choice (and is an object of respect) “. “ Personality (of a being) is freedom and independence from the mechanism of the whole nature, regarded nevertheless as also a capacity of (this) being subject to special laws -namely pure practical laws given by his own reason “.
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The Ethics of Risk in Psychiatry: The Interplay Between Risk and Probability
Jean Pierre Clero (Universite de Rouen, France)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6310-5.ch011
Abstract
Psychiatric medicine poses specific ethical problems relating to the particularity of the illnesses and of the patients. It intends to cure and to the nature of the treatments it prescribes. Its differences with the other branches of medicine have been highlighted for a long time. The psychiatric patient worries his family circle to a greater extent and in different ways than any other patient. This chapter explores the ethics of risk in psychiatry.
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