title: [Is "mental health" part of the common good? The sociopolitical framework of psychiatric ethics and the responsibility of health-care elites].
abstract: Psychiatric work can only be that ethical as the framework of a health-care system allows. Thus, the responsibility of the health-care elites to establish a sociopolitical framework that suits psychiatric ethics is discussed on the basis of a theory of the common good and of a philosophical and normative elite theory. "Mental health" is demonstrated to be part of a basic sphere of the common good which cannot be denied to any member of a society. The final section discusses which specific duties can be derived for health-care elites on the ground of the aforementioned conception of "mental health" as a part of the common good.
authors.affiliation: Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover.
authors.forename: Eike
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bohlken
mesh_terms: D062309:Community Integration / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008603:Mental Health / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011057:Politics; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000941:ethics*; D012935:Social Justice / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012941:Social Responsibility