Sidney Bloch AM, MB ChB, PhD, DPM, FRCPsych, FRANZCP is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne, and Honorary Psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital.
Stephen A. Green, M.D., M.A. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University, and has a private psychiatric practice in Washington, D.C.

• Section A Historical, philosophical and social context


• 1: Sidney Bloch and Stephen A Green: The scope of psychiatric ethics


• 2: Louis C Charland: A historical perspective


• 3: Tom L Beauchamp: The philosophical dimension


• 4: Richard Martinez and Philip Candilis: Narrative ethics


• 5: Michael Laney and John Z Sadler: Psychiatric diagnosis


• 6: Margaret Coady: Psychiatric ethics and the professions


• 7: Robert van Voren and Robert Keukens: The abuse of psychiatry


• 8: James E. Sabin and Norman Daniels: Allocation of mental health resources


• 9: Stephen A Green: Psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry


• 10: Sidney Bloch and Felicity Kenn: Codes of psychiatric ethics


• Section B Core issues in psychiatric ethics


• 11: David Joseph, Melissa Goldstein and Joseph Onek: Confidentiality


• 12: Christopher Ryan and Jane Bartels: Involuntary hospitalization


• 13: Sidney Bloch and David Heyd: Suicide


• 14: Glen Gabbard: Boundary violations


• 15: Laura Dunn and Laura Roberts: Psychiatric research


• 16: Charlotte Allan, Anne Farmer and Peter McGuffin: Psychiatric genetics


• 17: Georg Northoff: Neuroethics


• Section C Ethical aspects of clinical psychiatry


• 18: Mahesh Jayaram, Sarah Farrand, Dennis Velakoulis and Christos Pantelis: Physical treatments


• 19: Gwen Adshead: The psychotherapies


• 20: Adrian Sondheimer, Niranjan Karnik and Peter Jensen: Child and adolescent psychiatry


• 21: Catherine Oppenheimer and Julian Hughes: Psychiatry of the elderly


• 22: Philip Candilis and Richard Martinez: Forensic psychiatry


• 23: George Szmukler: Community psychiatry


• 24: Michael Robertson and Garry Walter: Trauma and psychiatry


• 25: Tomer Levin and Christopher Ryan: Consultation-liaison psychiatry

The bestselling Psychiatric Ethics returns for its fifth edition and has been fully updated to reflect changes to the field in the past decade.