Body-subjects and disordered minds / Eric Matthews.
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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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Format: | 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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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191584602 0191584606 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |