Course Description
This workshop will ask whether new developments in forensic ethics offer the prospect of helping forensic psychiatry address inequities among vulnerable groups treated inequitably in the judicial system.
Alec Buchanan will begin by discussing the role of dignity of the person as an ethical principle. Legal cases, including France’s controversy over the rights of people to behave in undignified ways, suggest that it may usefully extend the reach of respecting the person. Sarah Baker will review empathy as a specific ethics tool. Navneet Sidhu will discuss feminist concerns with dignity in corrections such as prolonged protective
custody and extended suicide precautions. Philip Candilis will offer criticisms of dignity while exploring how it applied to the torture of a German kidnapper. Richard Martinez will then connect the discussion to professionalism and the goals of forensic psychiatry.
Participants will then bring their own ethical dilemmas for discussion into small groups or choose one of three topics: France’s prohibition of “dwarf-tossing”, Germany’s mixed response to torturing a kidnapper (the Daschner trial), or the US detention of pregnant women with substance use. Speakers will then bring the groups together for discussion.
Speakers
Sarah E. Baker, MD, Dallas, TX
Philip J. Candilis, MD, Washington, DC
Alec Buchanan, MD, New Haven, CT
Navneet Sidhu, MD, Washington, DC
Richard Martinez, MD, Aurora, CO
Philip J. Candilis, MD, Washington, DC
Alec Buchanan, MD, New Haven, CT
Navneet Sidhu, MD, Washington, DC
Richard Martinez, MD, Aurora, CO
Accreditation Statement
The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Learning Objectives
To advance the models available for addressing inequities in the judicial system. To improve methods for teaching analysis of complex ethics cases. To enhance consultation on conflicts between community security and individual freedoms.
To advance the models available for addressing inequities in the judicial system. To improve methods for teaching analysis of complex ethics cases. To enhance consultation on conflicts between community security and individual freedoms.
Disclosure
All meeting planners, Program and Education Committee Members, in control of content for the meeting have signed disclosures indicating that they have no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies.
All presenters (Sarah E. Baker, MD, Philip J. Candilis, MD, Alec Buchanan, MD, Navneet Sidhu, MD, and Richard Martinez, MD) have also signed disclosures indicating that they have no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies.
