Moral margins concerning the use of coercion in psychiatry

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 304-316

  Landeweer, Elleke GM ^a   Abma, Tineke A ^a   Widdershoven, Guy AM ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dialogical ethics; empirical ethics; moral case deliberation; moral deliberation; moral psychology; seclusion in psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MORALITY; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT CARE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; SAFETY; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COERCION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT ISOLATION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 79955838402     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733011400301     Document Type: Article

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