Posted by zazenducky on October 11, 2006, at 21:19:57
World Psychiatry Association on Ethics:
Psychiatrists addressing the media.The media has a key role in shaping the attitudes of the community. In all contacts with the media psychiatrists shall ensure that people with mental illness are presented in a manner which preserves their dignity and pride, and which reduces stigma and discrimination against them. An important role of psychiatrists is to advocate for those people who suffer from mental disorders. As the public perception of psychiatrists and psychiatry reflects on patients, psychiatrists shall ensure that in their contact with the media they represent the profession of psychiatry with dignity. Psychiatrists shall not make announcements to the media about presumed psychopathology on any individuals. In presenting research findings to the media, psychiatrists shall ensure the scientific integrity of the information given and be mindful of the potential impact of their statements on the public perception of mental illness and on the welfare of people with mental disorders.
Psychiatrists and discrimination on ethnic or cultural grounds.
Discrimination by psychiatrists on the basis of ethnicity or culture, whether directly or by aiding others is unethical.
http://www.wpanet.org/generalinfo/ethic1.html
I thought it was interesting that Psychiatrists have ethical obligations even when not in a doctor patient relationship. I am in favour of ethics as well as truth and justice :)
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