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    Norbert Konrad, Birgit Völlm, D.N. Weisstub, editors.
    Summary: Recent surveys demonstrate a high and possibly increasing prevalence of mental disorders in prisoners. They have an increased risk of suffering from a mental disorder that transcends countries and diagnoses. Ethical dilemmas in prison psychiatry arise from resource allocation and include issues of patient choice and autonomy in an inherently coercive environment. Ethical conflicts may arise from the dual role of forensic psychiatrists giving raise to tensions between patient care/protection of the public. This book describes models and ethical issues of psychiatric healthcare in prison in several countries. Relevant issues are: the professional medical role of a psychiatrist and/or psychotherapist working in prison, the involvement of psychiatrists in disciplinary or coercive measures; consent to treatment, the use of coercion in forcing a prisoner to undergo treatment, hunger strike, confidentiality. The book ends with consensus guidelines concerning good practice in Prison Psychiatry.

    Contents:
    Introduction. Prison psychiatry / Norbert Konrad
    Ethics within the prison system / Helmut Pollhne
    Ethical issues in correctional psychiatry in the United States / Henry Dlugacz, Julie Y. Low, Christopher Wimmer and Lisa Knox
    The evolution of punishment and incarceration / George B. Palermo
    Forensic research with the mentally disordered offender / Julio Arboleda-Flórez and David Weisstub
    Special problems in different countries. Ethical issues in Australian prison psychiatry / Danny Sullivan
    Penitentiary mental health care in Belgium / Paul Cosyns and Kris Goethals
    Ethical issues in prison psychiatry: forensic mental health care in Brazil / Jos G. V. Taborda, Lisieux E. de B. Telles, Maurcio Cardoso, Helena D.C. Bins
    Psychiatric treatment in the detention systems of Quebec, trying to merge carceral and therapeutic cultures / Jocelyne Aubut, Jean-Luc Dubreucq, Marie-Hélène Régnier
    Ethical issues in German prison psychiatry / Norbert Konrad
    Mentally ill prisoners: Indian perspective / Siva Nambi, Janannathan Srinivasaraghavan
    Ethical issues in prison psychiatry in Israel / Jacob Margolin, Moshe Birger, Eliezer Witztum
    Current status of prison psychiatry and its relationship with general psychiatry in Japan / Yoji Nakatani, Osamu Kuroda
    Overcrowded prisons and low psychiatric provision: the situation of mentally ill prisoners in Kenya / David Ndetai and Muthoni Mathai
    Ethical problems of forensic and prison psychiatry in Latvia (Māris Taube)
    Ethical issues in prison psychiatry in the Netherlands / E.D.M. Masthoff, B.H. Bulten
    Ethical issues in prison psychiatry in România / Nicoleta Tătaru
    Ethical issues of mental health care in the Slovene prison system / Vita Potuvan, Tanja Madjar
    Quality and ethical problems of mental health services in prisons in Spain / Luis Fernando Barrios Flores & Francisco Torres-Gonázles
    Ethical issues in prison psychiatry in Sweden / Orsolya Hoffmann, Lennart Mossberg
    Prison psychiatry in Switzerland / Marc Graf
    Current ethical challenges in prison psychiatry in England & Wales / Adarsh Kaul, Birgit Völlm
    Application of the AMA Code of Medical Ethics to psychiatric practice in correctional facilities and access to psychiatric care in the U.S.A. / Alan R. Felthous
    Conclusion / Norbert Konrad, Birgit Völlm and David Weisstub.
    Digital Access Springer 2013