Body-subjects and disordered minds /
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 u...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
