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Professor Bill Fulford

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Professor of Philosophy & Mental Health

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Institute of Clinical Education
Medical School Building
Gibbet Hill Campus
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL

Tel: 024 7652 4961
Fax: 020 76574879
Email: K.W.M.Fulford@warwick.ac.uk

RESEARCH PROFILE

My research has been concerned with the rich connections between philosophy and mental health practice. I have looked in particular at the ways in which values come into psychiatric assessment and diagnosis (as well as into ethical and medico-legal aspects of treatment). This is important practically in a number of areas including, 1) prevention of abuse, 2) better recognition of the patient's perspective, 3) assessment of competence (for example, in relation to legal capacity and the proper role of psychiatrists as expert witnesses), and 4) better understanding of psychopathological concepts. My present work centres on Values Based Practice, originally developed in the context of mental health care, but which can be applied across clinical practice more broadly as an explicit complement to Evidence Based Practice.

BACKGROUND

I am an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry and a member of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford, Visiting Professor of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, and Co-Director of the Institute for Philosophy Diversity and Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire. I am currently seconded part time to the Department of Health as a Special Advisor for Values-Based Practice, in which role I am leading on a number of national programmes, in particular the training programme to support the Amending Bill to the Mental Health Act, 1983, and the production of DH Guidance on Comprehensive Diagnosis. In 1994 I set up the Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health Programme (PEMH), originally in the Philosophy Department but now housed in the Warwick Medical School. I am the lead editor for an international book series from OUP on International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry, and of the international peer-review journal from JHUP, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

There are no current research projects

Further Research Projects

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Fulford K.W.M., T Thornton., G.Graham (2007) Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (0-19-852695-4) UK: Oxford University Press
Chung, M.C., Fulford K.W.M., and Graham, G (2007) Reconceiving Schizophrenia (978-0-19-852613-1) UK: Oxford University Press
Fulford K.W.M., Graham, G and Chung, M.C (2007) in Reconceiving Schizophrenia, (978-0-19-852613-1), United Kingdom: Oxford University Press
Woodbridge K and Fulford K.W.M. (2004) Whose Values? (1-870480 62 7) UK: The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
Fulford K W M, Smirnoff A, Snow E (1993) 'Concepts of Disease and the Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR' British Journal Of Psychiatry 162 (0007-1250)