Research Catalog

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Description

1. xvii, 540 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "The public, mental health consumers, as well as mental health practitioners wonder about what kinds of values mental health professionals hold, and what kinds of values influence psychiatric diagnosis. In his carefully nuanced and exhaustively referenced monograph, psychiatrist and philosopher of psychiatry John Z. Sadler describes the manifold kinds of values and value judgements involved in psychiatric diagnosis and classification systems like the DSM. Taking the reader on a fascinating conceptual tour of the inner workings of psychiatric diagnosis, he considers the role of science, culture, sexuality, politics, gender, technology, human nature, patienthood, and professions in building his vision of a more humane psychiatric diagnostic process."--Jacket.

Series statement

1. International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry

Uniform title

1. International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.

Subject

1. Maladies mentales > Diagnostic > Philosophie
2. Social values
3. Mental health personnel > Philosophy
4. Psychiatry > Social aspects
5. Psychiatrie > Aspect social
6. Psychiatry > Moral and ethical aspects
7. Psychiatry > ethics
8. Psychiatry > Philosophy
9. Mental illness > Diagnosis > Philosophy
10. diagnostic (médecine) > psychiatrie > valeur (philosophie)
11. Valeurs (Philosophie)
12. Personnel de santé mentale > Philosophie
13. Mental Disorders > diagnosis
14. Psychiatrie > Aspect moral
15. Psychiatrie > Philosophie
16. Philosophy, Medical
17. Valeurs sociales
18. Mental illness > Diagnosis > Moral and ethical aspects
19. Values
20. Maladies mentales > Aspect social
21. Social Values
22. Mental illness > Social aspects
23. Maladies mentales > Diagnostic > Aspect moral

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-523) and indexes.