Global mental health and neuroethics
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2015
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BMC Medicine
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BioMed Central Ltd
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University of Cape Town
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BACKGROUND: Global mental health is a relatively new field that has focused on disparities in mental health services across different settings, and on innovative ways to provide feasible, acceptable, and effective services in poorly-resourced settings. Neuroethics, too, is a relatively new field, lying at the intersection of bioethics and neuroscience; it has studied the implications of neuroscientific findings for age-old questions in philosophy, as well as questions about the ethics of novel neuroscientific methods and interventions.DISCUSSION:In this essay, we address a number of issues that lie at the intersection of these two fields: an emphasis on a naturalist and empirical position, a concern with both disease and wellness, the importance of human rights in neuropsychiatric care, and the value of social inclusion and patient empowerment.SUMMARY:These different disciplines share a number of perspectives, and future dialogue between the two should be encouraged.
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Stein, D. J., & Giordano, J. (2015). Global mental health and neuroethics. BMC medicine, 13(1), 44.