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Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry by James Phillips (Paperback, 2008)

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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 of general 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 ambiguity psychiatry 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 be measured. Disorders and treatments might become reduced to what can be defined by diagnostic criteria and what can be mapped out on a scale.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780199207428
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95566900

Product Key Features

Subject Area
Biological Psychology
Author
James Phillips
Publication Name
Philosophical Perspectives ON Technology and Psychiatry
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Biology
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
232mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
513g

Additional Product Features

Series Title
International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Editor
James Phillips

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