Classifying Madness by Rachel Cooper
This book is about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly known as the D.S.M. The D.S.M. is published by the American Psychiatric Association and aims to list and describe all mental disorders. Within its pages can be found diagnostic criteria for types of depression, types of schizophrenia, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, phobias, sleeping disorders, and so on. Also included are less familiar, and more controversial, conditions: Mathematics Disorder, Caffeine Intoxication, Nicotine Dependence, Nightmare Disorder. It must be admitted that the D.S.M. is not an exciting read. Its pages follow a standard format: Each disorder has a numerical code. This is followed by a description of the disorder, which includes information regarding prevalence, course, and differential diagnosis. Finally explicit criteria that patients must meet to receive the diagnosis are listed. These generally include lists of the symptoms that must be present, restrictions as to the length of time that the symptoms must have been troublesome, and clauses that state that the symptoms must not be better accounted for by some other condition.-
Thomas Percivals Medical Ethics and the Invention of Medical Professionalism
-
The Vulnerability of the Human World
-
Ethics and Critical Care Medicine
-
Medical Research Ethics: Challenges in the 21st Century
-
New Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences
-
Life Conduct in Modern Times
-
Chasing Tourette’s: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self
-
Chasing Tourettes: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self
-
At the Foundations of Bioethics and Biopolitics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
-
Emerging Issues in Catholic Bioethics
-
Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby: A Reprint with Commentaries
-
Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation
-
Human Capacities and Moral Status
-
Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons
-
Articulating Intersex: A Crisis at the Intersection of Scientific Facts and Social Ideals
-
Mutating Concepts, Evolving Disciplines: Genetics, Medicine, and Society
-
Bioethics Critically Reconsidered
-
Philosophical Medical Ethics: Its Nature and Significance
-
The Use of Human Beings in Research
-
Informed Consent, Proxy Consent, and Catholic Bioethics
-
Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care
-
The Edge of Life
-
From Physicians Professional Ethos towards Medical Ethics and Bioethics
-
Elisha Bartlett's Philosophy of Medicine
-
Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos
-
Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology
-
Infertility
-
A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease
-
Moral Expertise
-
The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics
-
The Ethics of Reproductive Genetics
-
Ethics Expertise
-
Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics
-
Ethos, Bioethics, and Sexual Ethics in Work and Reception of the Anatomist Niels Stensen (1638-1686)
-
Personal Identity as a Principle of Biomedical Ethics
-
Ibero-American Bioethics
From the reviews: Cooper's Classifying Madness is an important text in the context of these recent works and a useful addition to the broader, more interdisciplinary, philosophy of psychiatry literature... Its strengths are its straight-forward presentation, clear focus, and sensible reasoning. ... The book will be accessible and of interest to a wide audience of philosophers of science, philosophers of psychiatry, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and other researchers interested in issues concerning the classification of mental disorders. (Jonathan Y. Tsou, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 61 (2), June, 2010)
Naomi Jacobs is a researcher currently based at the University of Aberdeen, whose various work focuses on interaction in digital and physical spaces. This has included interdisciplinarity and knowledge exchange, fan practices of sharing online, and the effect on communities of internet of things technologies.
Rachel Cooper OBE is Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University. Professor Cooper's research covers: design thinking; design management; design policy, across all sectors of industry. She has a specific interest in design for wellbeing and socially responsible design, and has published widely on these topics.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9789048168415 |
| ISBN 10 | 9048168414 |
| Title | Classifying Madness |
| Author | Rachel Cooper |
| Series | Philosophy And Medicine |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Year published | 2010-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 178 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |