Citation

Powell T. Psychosomatics 1997; 38(4): 321-326.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0033-3182(97)71439-7

PMID

9217402

Abstract

The skills of the consultation-liaison psychiatrist are enormously valuable in the emerging field of clinical ethics consultation. Expertise in evaluating decision-making capacity is crucial, as is the larger issue of addressing the role that emotional factors play in making life or death decisions. Three cases are reviewed that illustrate the way in which the psychiatric perspective enhances the process of clinical ethics consultation.

Language: en

Keywords

Adult; Bioethics and Professional Ethics; Ethicists; Ethics Consultation; Ethics, Clinical; Ethics, Medical; Female; Humans; Male; Mental Health Therapies; Psychiatry; Referral and Consultation; Suicide, Attempted; Therapeutic Human Experimentation