Prison medicine: ethics and equivalence.
Guidelines for good medical practice do not reflect the complex reality of the ethical problems that arise in prison. Perhaps the best a doctor working in prison can do is realise that there are ethical dilemmas everywhere, try to recognise them and feel the tension.
Birmingham
Luke
L
Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry, University of Southampton, Ravenswood House, Knowle, Fareham, Hampshire PO17 5NA, UK. l.birmingham@soton.ac.uk
Wilson
Simon
S
Adshead
Gwen
G
D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000941:ethics; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011330:Prisons / Q000941:ethics*; D013222:State Medicine