Global Mental Health: challenges for a global ethics

This paper aims at presenting a perspective on a global ethics useful for conducting and evaluating research on global mental health. It includes the proposal of expanding the scope of "global" to include different aspects of cultural diversity and a plea for a "differential ethics&qu...

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Autor principal: Lolas,Fernando
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de Chile 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1726-569X2016000100002
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Sumario:This paper aims at presenting a perspective on a global ethics useful for conducting and evaluating research on global mental health. It includes the proposal of expanding the scope of "global" to include different aspects of cultural diversity and a plea for a "differential ethics" approach that accepts diversity and sociocultural determinants of health. The contention is advanced that ethics is a linguistic justification of moral norms based on customs, beliefs, and traditions. Besides its foundation on rational or religious beliefs, ethics should also be conceived of as a way of attaining human fulfillment of interests and expectations in the context of different forms of humanity.