Essentials Of Public Health Ethics Dec 01, 2013 By James ChildressRichard BonnieRuth Gaare BernheimA. Melnick Essentials Of Public Health Ethics Areas of focus Ethics James Childress Richard Bonnie Richard J. Bonnie is a professor of public policy at the Batten School and Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He teaches and writes about health law and policy, bioethics, criminal law, and public policies relating to mental health, substance abuse and public health. Read full bio A. Melnick Related Content Richard Bonnie Interventions Used by Virginia's Colleges to Respond to Student Mental Health Crises Research Objective: This study examined interventions by colleges in 2008–2009 to respond to students during mental health crises. Methods: Public (N=15) and private (N=25) four-year colleges and two-year community colleges (N=23) in Virginia were surveyed about academic policies governing responses to apparent mental health crises among students and how often they were invoked. Should a Personality Disorder Qualify as a Mental Disease in Insanity Adjudication? Research The determinative issue in applying the insanity defense is whether the defendant experienced a legally relevant functional impairment at the time of the offense. Categorical exclusion of personality disorders from the definition of mental disease is clinically and morally arbitrary because it may lead to unfair conviction of a defendant with a personality disorder who actually experienced severe, legally relevant impairments at the time of the crime. Ruth Gaare Bernheim Public Health Accreditation and Metrics for Ethics Research
Richard Bonnie Richard J. Bonnie is a professor of public policy at the Batten School and Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He teaches and writes about health law and policy, bioethics, criminal law, and public policies relating to mental health, substance abuse and public health. Read full bio
Interventions Used by Virginia's Colleges to Respond to Student Mental Health Crises Research Objective: This study examined interventions by colleges in 2008–2009 to respond to students during mental health crises. Methods: Public (N=15) and private (N=25) four-year colleges and two-year community colleges (N=23) in Virginia were surveyed about academic policies governing responses to apparent mental health crises among students and how often they were invoked.
Should a Personality Disorder Qualify as a Mental Disease in Insanity Adjudication? Research The determinative issue in applying the insanity defense is whether the defendant experienced a legally relevant functional impairment at the time of the offense. Categorical exclusion of personality disorders from the definition of mental disease is clinically and morally arbitrary because it may lead to unfair conviction of a defendant with a personality disorder who actually experienced severe, legally relevant impairments at the time of the crime.