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Safer self-injury or assisted self-harm?
Psychiatric patients may try (or express a desire) to injure themselves in hospital in order to cope with overwhelming emotional pain. Some health care practitioners and patients propose allowing a controlled amount of self-injury to occur in inpatient facilities, so as to prevent escalation of distress. Is this approach an example of professional assistance with harm? Or, is the approach more ...
متن کاملHospital care and repetition following self-harm: multicentre comparison of self-poisoning and self-injury.
BACKGROUND Quantitative research about self-harm largely deals with self-poisoning, despite the high incidence of self-injury. AIMS We compared patterns of hospital care and repetition associated with self-poisoning and self-injury. METHOD Demographic and clinical data were collected in a multicentre, prospective cohort study, involving 10,498 consecutive episodes of self-harm at six Englis...
متن کاملDeliberate self harm.
Introduction This paper summarises the research evidence presented in a recent issue of EVective Health Care on deliberate self harm. Deliberate self harm is one of the top five reasons for acute medical admissions in the UK. The term deliberate self harm includes intentional self poisoning or self injury (such as cutting), irrespective of the apparent purpose of the act. Self poisoning is the ...
متن کاملThe Right to Self-Harm: Legal Issues Concerning Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment for Self-Injury By
The concept of liberty is frequently invoked when discussing rights in the United States, both individual and constitutional. Less often brought up, however, is what exactly constitutes liberty. Is it delineated in the Constitution? Do we as humans possess some innate sense of what liberty is and what our rights are? No clear consensus has yet emerged. The dictionary definition states that libe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1386-7415,1573-1200
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-010-9135-z