Includes bibliographical references and index.

The possibility of empirical psychiatric ethics / John McMillan & Tony Hope -- Theory and methodology of empirical ethics : a pragmatic hermeneutic perspective / Guy Widdershoven & Lieke van der Scheer -- The origin and emergence of empirical ethics / Pascal Borry, Paul Schotsmans & Kris Dierickx -- Which empirical research, whose ethics? : articulating ideals in long term mental health care / Jeannette Pols -- Models of mental disorder : how philosophy and the social sciences can illuminate psychiatric ethics / Anthony Colombo -- Empirical ethics in action in practices of dementia care / Minke Goldsteen -- Family carers, ethics, and dementia : an empirical study / Clive Baldwin -- The advance directive conjuring trick and the person with dementia / Julian C Hughes & Steven R. Sabat -- Coercion in psychiatric care : a sociological and ethical case history analysis / Marian Verkerk, Louis Polstra & Marlieke de Jonge -- Providing good care in the context of restrictive measures : the case of prevention of obesity in youngsters with Prader-Willi syndrome / R.H. van Hooren ... [et al.] -- Ulysses arrangements in psychiatry : from normative ethics to empirical research, and back / Ine Gremmen -- Treatment refusal in anorexia nervosa : a challenge to current concepts of capacity / Jacinta Tan & Tony Hope -- Studying moral reasoning in forensic psychiatric patients / Gwen Adshead ... [et al.] -- Patient incompetence in the practice of old age psychiatry : the significance of empirical research for the law / Sander Welie.