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ArticleThe British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science2019

Deep brain stimulation and revising the Mental Health Act: the case for intervention-specific safeguards.

Jonathan Pugh, Tipu Aziz, Jonathan Herring, Julian Savulescu

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Article in The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jonathan PughResearch Fellow in Applied Moral Philosophy,The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford,UK.
Tipu AzizProfessor of Neurosurgery,The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford,UK.
Jonathan HerringProfessor of Law,Faculty of Law,University of Oxford,UK.
Julian SavulescuUehiro Chair in Practical Ethics,Oxford Functional Neurosurgery,University of Oxford,UK.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 104848/Z/14/ZWellcome Trust 203132Wellcome Trust 203195/Z/16/ZWellcome Trust WT104848/Z/14/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Under the current Mental Health Act of England and Wales, it is lawful to perform deep brain stimulation in the absence of consent and independent approval. We argue against the Care Quality Commission's preferred strategy of addressing this problematic issue, and offer recommendations for deep brain stimulation-specific provisions in a revised Mental Health Act.Declaration of interestT.A. is a paid consultant for Boston Scientific, Medtronic and St. Jude Medical. He has received honoraria from Abbott, Boston and Medtronics and served as consultant to all three.

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Deep Brain StimulationHealth PolicyHumansInformed ConsentMental CompetencyMental DisordersUnited Kingdomdeep brain stimulationmedical ethicsmental capacityMental Health Actmental health law

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PMID30774052
PMCPMC6420052

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