What is mental disorder? : an essay in philosophy, science, and values / Derek Bolton.
What is mental disorder? : an essay in philosophy, science, and values / Derek Bolton.
What is mental disorder? : an essay in philosophy, science, and values / Derek Bolton.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N616.99449/81
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xxviii, 303 p. ; 24 cm.
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The current diagnostic manuals : aims, methods, and questions -- The sciences on mental order/disorder and related concepts : normality, meaning, natural and social norms -- Mental disorder and human nature -- Clinical definition : distress, disability and the need to treat -- Boundaries and termino...
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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England
Date Published
2008.
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"However, these original problems have been transformed by crucial developments over the past few decades, and this book seeks to update the position taking them into account. The last few decades have seen the closing of the asylums and the appearance of care in the community: mental disorder is now in our midst, intensifying the problems of the '...
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What is mental disorder? : an essay in philosophy, science, and values / Derek Bolton.
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International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.
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0198565925 (pbk.) :
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616.99449
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