Human rights and bioethical indications in the prescription of psychotropic drugs

Abstract

Every medical intervention, or more generally every medical activity, has two purposes or ethical reference values, to be protected simultaneously (they could be compared to the DNA double helix found in every cell): a) the objective value that consists of the life and health of the citizen-patient; b) the subjective value that consists of respect for the freedom-responsibility of the subject or subjects involved in the medical act. This value, considered from the patient's side, is defined as the right to consent.