The Centre focuses on following research themes:
- Values in Health Practice (Axiology of Health Practice)
- Person-centeredness and Informed Consent to Health Interventions
- Philosophy of Mental Health
- Ethics of Mental Health
- Ethics of Health Research
- Ethics of Pandemic Diseases
Research topics currently pursued by Prof W van Staden:
- Building on the philosophy of Gottlob Frege in decoding matter, mind and language (with relevance to philosophy and mental health)
- Incapacity to give informed consent owing to mental disorder
- Causal accounts and conceptual boundaries of mental disorder in psychiatric diagnostic classifications
- Anxiety, vigour and related symptoms in schizophrenia
- Positive health and wellbeing as counterpart to ill-health in psychiatry and psychology
Topics of interest at the Centre may also be gleaned from the titles of PhD-theses (click here for details) and from recent publications (click here for details)
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