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The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion

Jennifer Radden

Print publication date: 2004

Print ISBN-13: 9780195149531

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195149531.001.0001

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Dangerousness

Dangerousness

“The General Duty to All the World”

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(p.271) Chapter 18 DANGEROUSNESS
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The Philosophy of Psychiatry
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Jennifer Radden
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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195149531.003.0020

This chapter discusses the moral and legal concept of dangerousness as it applies to mental disorder. It highlights the uneasy balance between ensuring safety for those endangered when their actions pose a threat (to self or others) and respecting individual rights. It argues that the fulcrum that would seek to balance these conflicting goals should be set at a point that is clearly advantageous to the rights of the individual over the collective.

Keywords:   case law, prediction, liability, mental disorder, individual, collective

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