Body-subjects and disordered minds:
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Main Author: Matthews, Eric (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007
Series:International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185) and index
Preface -- - 1 - Introducing the problem -- - 2 - Illness and disease -- - 3 - 'Minds' and 'bodies' -- - 4 - Phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty -- - 5 - The body-subject and mental disorder -- - 6 - Mental disorder and choice -- - 7 - Mental disorder and legal responsibility -- - 8 - Treatment without consent -- - References -- - Index
How should we deal with mental disorder - as an 'illness' like diabetes or bronchitis, as a 'problem in living', or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and about the nature and aims of scientific medicine
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 189 pages)
ISBN:0191584606
9780191584602

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