Published in Psychopraxis, Neuropraxis
Einschränkungen der Bewegungsfreiheit psychiatrischer Patienten im Sinne einer mechanischen Fixierung sind in Österreich im Rahmen des Unterbringungsgesetzes zur Abwehr von Selbst- und Fremdgefährdung zulässig, sofern deren Anwendung verhältnismäßig ist. Neben rechtlichen Aspekten sind im Rahmen von Bewegungseinschränkungen auf das Krankenbett ethi...
Published in BMC Psychiatry
Background and objectivesCoercion in psychiatry is legally tolerated as a last resort. The reduction of the use of coercion is a shared goal of hospital administrators, medical and nursing staff and representatives of patients and families but requires the identification of risk factors for coercion. These risk factors in geriatric psychiatric inpa...
Published in Social science research
How do authoritarian states organize their coercive institutions over space? We argue that autocrats maximize the utility of their limited coercive resources by clustering them with perceived threats in society, i.e., segments of the population that are ideologically distant and have mobilizational potential. We test this proposition using a datase...
Published in Journal of Medical Ethics
Migrant workers in dormitories are an attractive source of clinical trial participants. However, they are a vulnerable population that has been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Guidelines on recruiting vulnerable populations (such as prisoners, children or the mentally impaired) for clinical trials have long been established, b...
Published in International journal of law and psychiatry
Despite absence of clear evidence to assert that the use of coercion in psychiatry is practically and clinically helpful or effective, coercive measures are widely used. Current practices seem to be based on institutional cultures and decision-makers' attitudes towards coercion rather than led by recommendations issued from the scientific literatur...
In an attempt to address the issues in research and theory on consent, this thesis explores what consent can be seen as "doing" through an 'Intuitive Inquiry' (Anderson 2011a) and 'Agential Realism' (Barad 2007). Various manifestations of consent appears through: the experience of the researcher, consent research and theory, consent legislation, in...
Resource Control Theory (Hawley, 1999) has been presented as an alternative theory for the study of preadolescent social behavior. However, there are no instruments to assess its pro-posals for the Spanish language. The study’s objective was to validate the Resource Control Resources Inventory for the Chilean preadolescent population. For this purp...
Published in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
Aims The use of mechanical restraint is a challenging area for psychiatry. Although mechanical restraint remains accepted as standard practice in some regions, there are ethical, legal and medical reasons to minimise or abolish its use. These concerns have intensified following the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Despite nati...
Published in Philosophia (Ramat-Gan, Israel)
Watsuji is recognised as one Japan’s foremost philosophers. His work on ethics, Rinrigaku, is cosmopolitan in engaging the Western philosophical tradition, and in presupposing an international audience. Yet Watsuji’s ethical thought is largely of niche interest outside Japan, and it is critiqued on the ground that it ratifies totalitarianism, deman...
Published in Ethics and Information Technology
This research statement presents a roadmap for the ethical evaluation of contact tracing apps. Assuming the possible development of an effective and secure contact tracing app, this roadmap explores three ethical concerns—privacy, data monopolists and coercion- based on three scenarios. The first scenario envisions and critically evaluates an app t...
