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When Ethics, Healthcare, and Human Rights Conflict: Mental Healthcare for Asylum Seekers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2002

Annemiek Richters
Annemiek Richters
Affiliation:
Culture, Health, and Illness at Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Extract

Mental health professionals who care for asylum seekers in Western European countries increasingly encounter problems for which standard diagnostic and therapeutic protocols and institutional healthcare policies offer no ready answers. In the following case vignettes some of these problems can be identified.

Type
HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , July 2002 , pp. 304 - 318
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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