Abstract

RIBOT REYES, Victoria de la Caridad  and  GARCIA PEREZ, Teresita del Carmen. Ethical and Professional Codes in Psychiatry. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.2, pp. 360-371. ISSN 1727-8120.

A literature review was performed with the objective of analyzing the various international, regional and national ethical and deontological codes that the psychiatry specialty feeds on. It is concluded that ethical behavior is based on the sense of individual responsibility of each psychiatrist to each patient and the ability of both to determine what the correct and appropriate behavior is. External standards and guidelines, such as professional codes of conduct, the study of ethics and legal standards alone do not guarantee the ethical practice of medicine but are an important framework.

Keywords : psychiatry; medical ethics; bioethics; ethical theory.

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