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Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science

Rachel Valerie Cooper • McGill-Queens University Press • ISBN 9780773533875

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Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science

Rachel Valerie Cooper • McGill-Queens University Press • ISBN-13 9780773533875

ISBN-10 1120141850 • 2008

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ISBN 9780773533875 • Completeness 51

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Recent years have seen a growth in cross-disciplinary contact between philosophy of science and psychiatry. Rachel Cooper explores conceptual issues in psychiatry from the perspective of analytic philosophy of science, focussing on those features of psychiatry that can separate it from the other sciences: the subject matter of psychiatry is contested; psychiatry employs particular modes of explanation; mental health professionals work within different theoretical frameworks; psychiatry is problematically…

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Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
2007
Pages: 197

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Contributor: Rachel Valerie Cooper

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Category: EpistemologyCategory: Medical EthicsCategory: Philosophy Of MedicineCategory: Philosophy Of ScienceCategory: Analytic PhilosophyCategory: Psychiatric ClassificationCategory: Mental DisorderCategory: Conceptual Analysis

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