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Classifying Madness examines the conceptual foundations of the D.S.M., the main classification of mental disorders used by psychiatrists world-wide. It will be of interest to both mental health professionals and to philosophers interested in classification in science. The D.S.M. has become extremely controversial, and the possibility that there may be philosophical difficulties with it has become a commonplace in the mental health literature. Classifying Madness offers mental health professionals an opportunity to explore suspicions that there might be conceptual problems with the D.S.M. For philosophers, this book aims to contribute to debates in the philosophy of science concerning natural kinds, the theory-ladenness of classification, and the effect of sociological factors in science. These issues are normally approached via a consideration of the natural sciences and, as will be seen, approaching them via a consideration of psychiatry helps shed new light on old problems.

Mental illness --- Psychiatric diagnosis --- Psychodiagnostics --- Psychology, Pathological --- Nosology --- Classification --- Diagnosis --- Diagnosis. --- Medical ethics --- Philosophy --- Bioethics --- Medicine-Philosophy. --- Science --- Medicine. --- Social sciences --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Philosophy of Science. --- History of Medicine. --- Philosophy of the Social Sciences. --- Philosophy. --- Medicine --- Medical logic --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Health Workforce --- Medicine—Philosophy. --- Philosophy and science. --- Medicine—History. --- Philosophy and social sciences. --- Social sciences and philosophy --- Science and philosophy

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Psychiatry --- Science --- Psychiatry. --- Psychiatrie --- Sciences --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Psychiatrie. --- Philosophie.

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Production management --- anno 2000-2099 --- Industrial design. --- Design, Industrial --- Mechanical drawing --- New products --- Design --- Industrial design --- E-books

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Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science explores conceptual issues in psychiatry from the perspective of analytic philosophy of science. Through an examination of those features of psychiatry that distinguish it from other sciences – for example, its contested subject matter, its particular modes of explanation, its multiple different theoretical frameworks, and its research links with big business – Rachel Cooper explores some of the many conceptual, metaphysical and epistemological issues that arise in psychiatry. She shows how these pose interesting challenges for the philosopher of science while also showing how ideas from the philosophy of science can help to solve conceptual problems within psychiatry. Cooper’s discussion ranges over such topics as the nature of mental illness, the treatment decisions and diagnostic categories of psychiatry, the case-history as a form of explanation, how psychiatry might be value-laden, the claim that psychiatry is a multi-paradigm science, the distortion of psychiatric research by pharmaceutical industries, as well as engaging with the fundamental question whether the mind is reducible to something at the physical level. Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science demonstrates that cross-disciplinary contact between philosophy of science and psychiatry can be immensely productive for both subjects and it will be required reading for mental health professionals and philosophers alike.

Psychiatry --- Science --- Psychiatry. --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy. --- Science - Philosophy. --- Psychiatry - Philosophy.