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Commentary Those of us working in mental health tend to forget that much of medical ethics consists of coming to terms with scientific discoveries. Whilst society is still digesting the news that we can choose a child's sex, genome researchers tell us we will soon be able to know its medical future as well. In this world of breakthroughs and bombshells, psychiatry is the hick town where nothing happens; its dilemmas are the timeless ones. Ethicists have always worried about balancing the rights of the individual against those of the general public, and the antiquarian overtones of terms such as non-maleficience remind us that Hippocrates (460–370 BC) got there first. So Lepping's paper has an elegiac tone; he laments the passing of respect for individual rights, swept away by the tide of utilitarianism.
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