Mental Health as Public Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Ethics of Prevention, Volume Two in the Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics series, brings the most recent advances and information on Neuroethics and Bioethics. Chapters in this new release include Machine learning and suicide prevention: Considering context as a guide to ethical design, Identifying adolescents at risk of depression in global health: Benefits and risks, Ethics of early intervention and early detection in psychosis, The prevention of posttraumatic stress and the limits of positive, Parenting research and interventions applied internationally and cross-culturally, and more.
- Highlights issues surrounding mental health and discusses ethical concerns.
- Covers issues in public mental health, such as stigma, capacity and confidentiality
- Contains cutting-edge, original research by an interdisciplinary collection of authors, including experts in public health ethics, psychiatric ethics and global mental health
- Focuses on areas of mental disability where the empirical research is most extensive, thus providing an evidence-based grounding for ethical analysis
1. Introduction
Jennifer Radden and Kelso Cratsley
2. Public mental health ethics: an overview
Kelso Cratsley and Jennifer Radden
3. Is coercion ever beneficent? Public health ethics in early intervention
and prevention for mental health
Alex McKeown, Rose Mortimer, Arianna Manzini and Ilina Singh
4. Public mental health across cultures: the ethics of primary prevention of
depression, focusing on the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt
Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed and Rachel Bingham
5. Ethical considerations for conducting cross-cultural biological psychiatry
and prevention research on depression among adolescents in low- and
middle-income countries
Kamal Gautam, Gloria A. Pedersen, Syed Shabab Wahid and Brandon A. Kohrt
6. International and cross-cultural parenting research and intervention
ethics
Rebecca S. Hock, Elizabeth J. Levey, Christine E. Cooper-Vince and Benjamin
L. Harris
7. Conceptual and ethical problems in screening for major depressive
disorder
Dany Lamothe and Mona Gupta
8. Machine learning and suicide prevention: considering context as a guide to
ethical design
Phoebe Friesen and Katie OLeary
9. The ethics of early identification and intervention in psychosis
Charlotte A. L. Marriott and Matthew R. Broome
10. Preparing for the unthinkable? The prevention of posttraumatic stress
disorder and the limits of positive psychology
Ulrich Koch
11. Going too far? How the public health anti-obesity drives could cause harm
by promoting eating disorders
Jacinta O.A. Tan, Suzana Corciova and Dasha Nicholls
12. Prevention in prayer camps? The ethics of government engagement in
Ghanas 2012 mental health legislation
Lauren A. Taylor
13. Public mental health without the health? Challenges and contributions
from the Mad Pride and neurodiversity paradigms
Ginger A. Hoffman
Kelso Cratsley is a Visiting Researcher in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, and a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University. Jennifer Radden is Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston.