2008, ISBN: 0199207429

[SR: 4094564], Paperback, [EAN: 9780199207428], Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, Book, [PU: Oxford University Press], 2008-12-15, Oxford University Press, Our lives are d… More...

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ISBN: 9780199207428

Our lives are dominated by technology. We live with and through the achievements of technology. What is true of the rest of life is of course true of medicine. Many of us owe our existenc… More...

Our lives are dominated by technology. We live with and through the achievements of technology. What is true of the rest of life is of course true of medicine. Many of us owe our existence and our continued vigour to some achievement of medical technology. And what is true in a major way ofgeneral medicine is to a significant degree true of psychiatry. Prozac has long since arrived, and in its wake an ever-growing armamentarium of new psychotropics; beyond that, neuroscience promises ever more technological advances for the field. However, the effect of technology on the field of psychiatry remains highly ambiguous. On the one hand there are the achievements, both in the science and practice of psychiatry; on the other hand technology''s influence on the field threatens its identity as a humanistic practice. In this ambiguitypsychiatry is not unique - major thinkers have for a long time been highly ambivalent and concerned about the technological order that now defines modern society. For the future, the danger is that the psychiatrically real becomes that which can be seen, the symptom, and especially that which can bemeasured. Disorders and treatments might become reduced to what can be defined by diagnostic criteria and what can be mapped out on a scale. This book exams how technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and considers at just what cost these developments have been made. It includes a range of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters from a range of psychiatrists and philosophers. | Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry by James Phillips Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Health > Mental Health > Psychology & Psychiatry P10178, James Phillips<

2008, ISBN: 0199207429

Taschenbuch, [EAN: 9780199207428], Oxford University Press, Usa, Oxford University Press, Usa, Book, [PU: Oxford University Press, Usa], 2008-12-15, Oxford University Press, Usa, 13227210… More...

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ISBN: 9780199207428

Technology has had, and will continue to have, a major effect on the field of psychiatry - in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. In a collection of stimulating and thought-provoking ch… More...

Technology has had, and will continue to have, a major effect on the field of psychiatry - in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. In a collection of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters, this book exams how technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and considers at just what cost these developments have been made.; Science & Nature, OUP Oxford<