Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-852637-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 840 g

Reihe: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry

Key Features:

Provides an introduction to the issue of values in psychiatric diagnostic classification
- The second book in the IPPP series, following Nature and Narrative by Fulford (0-19-852611-3, publishing May 2003)

Description:

Psychiatry, in contrast to traditional branches of physical medicine, is laden with diverse value judgements. There is little disagreement that nausea or paralysis are 'bad' conditions. Our 'values' about these 'traditional' symptoms are shared. However, psychiatric disorders often concern areas of human experience and behaviour involving beliefs, judgements, morals, preferences, desires and assumptions. These are areas in which our values are typically not shared, indeed, they are likely to be extremely diverse and subjective. This book will examine the nature and significance for practice of the value-content of psychiatric diagnostic classification.

Competition:

Descriptions and Prescriptions: Values, Mental Disorders and the DSMs by Sadler et al, John Hopkins University Press, 2002

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Science
4. Patient, Profession, Guild
5. Space, Time and Being
6. Sex and Gender
7. Culture
8. Genetics
9. Technology
10. Politics
11. Conclusions: Values and the DSMs

Zielgruppe

All mental health specialists including psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, therapists, counsellors, as well as philosophers with an interest in mental health, bioethicists and social scientists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sadler, John

Sadler, John Z.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Über Autor(innen)

JOHN Z. SADLER, Professor and Director, Undergraduate Medical Education, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, USA