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[Therapeutic and cosmetic psychopharmacology. Risks and limits].
- Source :
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Cuadernos de bioetica : revista oficial de la Asociacion Espanola de Bioetica y Etica Medica [Cuad Bioet] 2009 May-Aug; Vol. 20 (69), pp. 211-30. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- In this paper, I analyze risks and limits of the current psychopharmacology and how both are promoting a new social interpretation of health concept. Besides, I show how such interpretation can be detected in four issues related to safety, equality, psychiatrization of human condition, and autonomy. In the conclusions, I defend, first, the obligation of physician to inform patients about the important long-term uncertainties around psychopharmacology. Second, I justify the necessity of promote more prolonged monitoring of patients treated with such kind of drugs. Third, I insist in the relevance of increasing research about drugs ' adverse effects extended over a long time. And forth, I bring up the utility of health concept to avoid the subjective stigmatization of cognitive or affective traits, to prevent potential problems of inequality and coercion, and to keep from mental disorders caused by attempts of getting psychical states supposedly optimized.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Affect drug effects
Attitude to Health
Biomedical Enhancement methods
Child
Drug Utilization statistics & numerical data
Europe
Humans
Mental Disorders diagnosis
Mental Disorders drug therapy
Mental Disorders psychology
North America
Psychotropic Drugs adverse effects
Reference Values
Risk
Social Desirability
Spain
Unnecessary Procedures
Biomedical Enhancement ethics
Psychopharmacology classification
Psychopharmacology ethics
Psychopharmacology methods
Psychopharmacology trends
Psychotropic Drugs therapeutic use
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Spanish; Castilian
- ISSN :
- 1132-1989
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 69
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Cuadernos de bioetica : revista oficial de la Asociacion Espanola de Bioetica y Etica Medica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19507923