Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective
This paper uses ethnographic material of NHS mental healthcare to raise some questions about autonomy, risk and personal and institutional responsibility.

My research investigates mental health. I am particularly interested in how the institutional setting shapes so much of mental healthcare. My research aims to find ways that we might improve healthcare institutions rather than just focussing on developing new healthcare interventions. I am also concerned with methodological questions: how anthropological work can be of clinical value, and how best to produce anthropological knowledge in an inclusive way.
Date: 13 February 2020, 17:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2020)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr Neil Armstrong (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Organiser: Dr Doug McConnell (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: rachel.gaminiratne@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Part of: New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
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Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Rachel Gaminiratne