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J Med Ethics 2004;30:430-434 doi:10.1136/jme.2002.000703
  • Law, ethics and medicine

The convention on human rights and biomedicine and the use of coercion in psychiatry

  1. T Tannsjo
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor T Tannsjo
 Department of Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; torbjorn.tannsjophilosophy.su.se
  • Accepted 22 April 2003

Abstract

According to a recent convention on human rights and biomedicine, coercive treatment of psychiatric patients may only be given if, without such treatment, serious harm is likely to result to the health of the patient; it must not be given in the interest of other people. In the present article a discussion is undertaken about the implication of this stipulation for the use of coercion in psychiatry in general and in forensic psychiatry in particular.

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  • ↵* I owe this observation to an anonymous referee for this journal.

  • ↵† This work is translated by the author from Swedish.

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