The Psychiatrist's Responsibilities

EPA guidance on the role and responsibilities of psychiatrists.

Psychiatry is that branch of the medical profession, which deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and management of mental disorders or mental illness, emotional and behavioural disturbances. Thus, a psychiatrist is a trained doctor who has received further training in the field of diagnosing and managing mental illnesses, mental disorders and emotional and behavioural disturbances. This...

APA resource document: I. The professional responsibilities of psychiatrists in evolving health care systems.

The Psychiatrists

Although written by a professor of politics, this book is about American psychiatrists and analysts. It describes two different 'tribes' of doctors: analysts, more highly selected, earning more money and seeing fewer patients, who are individually more important and more influential, and general practitioners, working in mental hospitals and centres and seemingly regarded as an inferior breed. ...

The Responsibilities of Engineers

Knowledge of the responsibilities of engineers is the foundation for answering ethical questions about the work of engineers. This paper defines the responsibilities of engineers by considering what constitutes the nature of engineering as a particular form of activity. Specifically, this paper focuses on the ethical responsibilities of engineers qua engineers. Such responsibilities refer to th...

The Charitable Responsibilities Model

In order to mitigate the uncertainty that arises from the five paradoxes of corporate strategic philanthropy, we must re including its basic underlying assumptions. This paper sets forth a new model of corporate social responsibility: the charitable responsibilities model. By embracing the new model set forth paper, businesses can avoid the common pitfalls of corporate strategic philanthropy, i...