Based on six King's College London debates, this book explores the moral dilemmas raised by modern medicine. The public debates tackled issues such as health and poverty, bioengineering, euthanasia and mental health. In each of the six topics, two speakers exchanged views and their talks are published in this volume, ...
This paper gives a framework for thinking about new sorts of training needs for community services in the field of mental health. It describes what a good community service should look like; it looks at what people need to learn about if they are to provide effective help to people ...
This document considers that the role of volunteers working in psychiatric hospitals is essentially to add a dimension of reality to the lives of the patients and, by so doing, to help them maintain, develop and strengthen their links with the community. A variety of voluntary services that are being ...