The psychiatrist as moral advisor |
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Authors: | Robert B. Redmon |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Philosophy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Box 2025, 23284, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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Abstract: | This paper is a critique of a paper by Robert Lipkin [1]. Arguments for the following claims are put forward: (1) that what is ‘essential’ to the psychiatric relationship is what we want it to be for utilitarian reasons; (2) it would not be to our advantage to allow the medicalization of morality; (3) what we should expect from the psychiatrist is prudential advice, not moral advice, and that Lipkin has a confused view about the relationship between these two areas; and (4) we should not allow the psychiatrist to restrict individuals on moral grounds, but only on public safety grounds. |
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