[Is "mental health" part of the common good? The sociopolitical framework of psychiatric ethics and the responsibility of health-care elites]. / "Psychische Gesundheit" als Gemeinwohlgut und der soziopolitische Rahmen einer Ethik der Psychiatrie--die Verantwortung der Eliten im Gesundheitswesen.

Psychiatric work can only be that ethical as the framework of a health-care system allows. Thus, the responsibility of the health-care elites to establish a sociopolitical framework that suits psychiatric ethics is discussed on the basis of a theory of the common good and of a philosophical and normative elite theory. "Mental health" is demonstrated to be part of a basic sphere of the common good which cannot be denied to any member of a society. The final section discusses which specific duties can be derived for health-care elites on the ground of the aforementioned conception of "mental health" as a part of the common good.

[Handling of patients with dementia--scenario 2050]. / Umgang mit Demenz--Szenario 2050.

The relationship between social attitudes, normative ethics, health care elite's and individual failure has been highlighted in a scenario for patients with dementia. Inhuman abuse may be protected by sense of responsibility, duty to social being, inclusion of psychiatric patients, and the foundation of human dignity.