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Measuring mental disorders : psychiatry, science and society /
This book is a collective work draws on the perspective of social sciences, mobilizing perspectives from the sociology of science, the history of psychiatry, medical ethnography and public policy analysis. This initiative, which has no precedent in social sciences, is surrounded by an original, if n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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London : Oxford, UK :
ISTE Press Ltd. ; Elsevier Ltd.,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Measuring Mental Disorders: Psychiatry, Science and Society; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Instruments and Subjects: Individuality and Its Rules; I.1. The institutionalization of mental health: the context of the emergence of assessment tools; I.2. The negotiated order of the DSM-III; I.3. The standard: a new format for rules?; I.4. References; PART 1: Basic Principles: Strengths and Limitations of Psychiatric Assessment Tools; Introduction to Part 1; 1. The Spread of Psychiatric Nosographyin to Science: Origins and Issues of the Research on Depression (1950-1985)
- 1.1. First period: from the reactional model to the earliest clinical hypotheses (1950-1977)1.2. Second period: growth and limits of brain neurochemistry (1978-1984); 1.3. Third period: toward principles of standardized clinical evaluation (from 1985 onwards); 1.4. Conclusion; 1.5. References; 2. The Hamilton Scale as an Analyzer for the Epistemological Difficulties in Research on Depression; 2.1. A measurement without an object to be measured; 2.2. Multiple, but ineffectual, criticisms; 2.3. Moving toward a paradigm crisis; 2.4. Conclusion; 2.5. References
- PART 2: Developments: Chronicles of Successful TestsIntroduction to Part 2; 3. A Golden Standard to Evaluate OCD: On the Use of the Y-BOCS; 3.1. The historical and ontological development of the scale and the disorder; 3.2. An instrument of explicative and structuring objectification; 3.3. Limits and evolution of the scale; 3.4. Does the Y-BOCS have a (promising) future?; 3.5. References; 4. Objectifying Dementia: the Use of the Mini-Mental State Exam in Medical Research and Practice; 4.1. From success to controversy; 4.2. A convertible capital; 4.3. Conclusion; 4.4. References
- PART 3: Uses: the Tests in ContextIntroduction to Part 3; 5. The MMSE in Practice: the Medical Relationship Reflected through the Administration of a Neuropsychological Test; 5.1. The interpretation of the tests during the initial diagnosis: listening to and evaluating the companions; 5.2. Testing cognitive function, working on relations with the families: the multiple uses of the test over the long-term in relations between carer, patient and families; 5.3. Conclusion; 5.4. References
- 6. From Care to Risk Prevention: the Success of Screening Tests for Drugs at the Workplace (United States/France)6.1. From the clinic to the Vietnam war: innovation and initial uses; 6.2. Regularizing and standardizing: the European domestication of drug screening; 6.3. Conclusion; 6.4. References; Conclusion; List of Authors; Index; Back Cover