This article considers force use in clinical settings after a triggering event—a behavioral or medical crisis—and considers how it should be implemented.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(4):E326-334. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.326.
Julian Savulescu's writing on conscientious objection is guided by an emphasis on the principle of distributive justice that does not allow religion to have a special status as justification.
Forensic psychiatrists need to be familiar with the use of posttraumatic stress disorder as a legitimate and proper defense in criminal cases, especially given changes to its classification in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
A review of a landmark case that determined why and under what circumstances antipsychotic medications can be administered to incarcerated patients with mental illness against their will.