Healing psychiatry : bridging the science/humanism divide /

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A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics. Psychiatry today is torn by opposing sensibilities. Is it primarily a science of brain...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brendel, David H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Series:Basic bioethics.
Subjects:
Psychiatry > Moral and ethical aspects.
Psychiatry > Philosophy.
Psychiatric ethics.
Social psychiatry.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Psychiatry > ethics
Philosophy, Medical
Community Psychiatry
Psychiatrie > Philosophie.
Psychiatres > Déontologie.
Psychiatrie sociale.
Médecine > Philosophie.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Medicine > Philosophy
Psychiatric ethics
Psychiatry > Moral and ethical aspects
Psychiatry > Philosophy
Social psychiatry
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Science and Humanism in Psychiatry; 2 A Pragmatic Approach to Psychiatry; 3 Pragmatism in Action: Clinical Cases; 4 Pragmatism and the Mind/Body Problem; 5 Sigmund Freud: Scientist and Pragmatist; 6 Pragmatism in Neurology and Psychiatry; 7 Pragmatism in Psychiatric Diagnosis; 8 Pragmatism and the Future of Psychiatry; References; Index.

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