Classifying Madness A Philosophical Examination of the Diagnostic an
Classifying Madness examines the conceptual foundations of the D.S.M., the main classification of mental disorders used by psychiatrists world-wide. It will be of interest to both mental health professionals and to philosophers interested in classificatio
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Classifying Madness A Philosophical Examination of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
by Rachel Cooper
CLASSIFYING MADNESS
Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 86 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker
Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Associate Editor Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Department of Philosophy and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Editorial Board George J. Agich, Department of Bioethics, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio Nicholas Capaldi, Department of Philosophy, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma Edmund Erde, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, New Jersey Eric T. Juengst, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Christopher Tollefsen, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina Becky White, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Chico, California
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume
CLASSIFYING MADNESS A PHILOSOPHICAL EXAMINATION OF THE DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS
by
RACHEL COOPER University of Lancaster, U.K.
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ISBN-10 1-4020-3344-3 (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-10 1-4020-3345-1 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3344-5 (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3345-2 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction
1
1
What is mental disorder?
5
2
Are mental disorders natural kinds?
45
3
The problem of theory-ladenness
77
4
The D.S.M. and feedback in applied science
105
Conclusions
149
Appendix
151
References
153
Index
165
v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A great many people have helped me in writing this book. Most of all I am grateful to John Forrester, Robin Downie, Nick Jardine, and Chris Megone who read and commented on entire drafts. I’d also like to thank the following people who read and commented on sections: Nick Clark-Steel, Stephen Cowley, Gregory Currie, Julien Deonna, John Dupré, Martin Elphink, Katherine Hawley, David Healy, Susan James, Joel Katzav, Martin Kusch, Peter Lipton, Hugh Mellor, Dominic Murphy, Ha
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