Martin Roth, J. D. Roth, J. Kroll

The Reality of Mental Illness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists that has made fashionable the view that mental illness is merely socially deviant behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 215g
• ISBN-13: 9780521337618
• ISBN-10: 0521337615
• Artikelnr.: 26331413

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Mental illness, psychiatry and its critics
2. Disorders of the mind and the role of medicine in historical perspective
3. The evidence from transcultural enquiries
4. A consideration of the mind-body problem and its bearing on the concept of disease
5. Medical and alternative models of mental disease
6. Social, ethical and philosophical aspects of involuntary hospitalization and the insanity defence
Notes.