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- Book Title
- Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry (Interna
- ISBN
- 9780199207428
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199207429
ISBN-13
9780199207428
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66822378
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry
Publication Year
2008
Subject
General, Psychiatry / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Medical
Series
International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-025820
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"...this book is an interesting look at how technology has changed (sometimes for better, sometimes not) the practice of psychiatry and psychology, especially within the past 20 to 30 years....it offers significant insight into how the practice of psychiatry and psychology have been irreversibly altered."--Doody's, "...this book is an interesting look at how technology has changed (sometimes for better, sometimes not) the practice of psychiatry and psychology, especially within the past 20 to 30 years....it offers significant insight into how the practice of psychiatry and psychology have been irreversibly altered."-- Doody's
Dewey Decimal
616.89001
Table Of Content
IntroductionPart 1 - Technical Reason in Psychiatry1. the instrument metaphor, hyponarrativity, and the generic physician2. Technoloigcal rationality in psychiatry: immanent critique, critical theory, and a pragmatist alternative3. Technological reason and regulation of emotionPart 2 - Critical Approaches to TEchnology in Psychiatry4. Technology, aesthetic explanation, and psychoanalysis5. Focusing the lenses of feminist theories to reflect on technology and psychiatry6. The critical theory of psychopharmacology: the work of David Healy and beyond7. Towards a post-technological information theoryPart 3 - Technology and Psychiatric Disorders8. Technology and mental disorders: a clinical probe into the differential impact on individuals9. Frontal fatigue: how technology may contribute to mental illness10. Bored to tears? Depression and Heideggr's concepts of profound boredom: a postpsychiatry contributionPart 4 - Technological Instruments11. Psychiatric rehabilitation and the notion of technology in psychiatry12. Drugs, not hugs: antidepressant medication trials and suicidality in children - a case history in the philosophy of science as an argument for the neeed for improved technology in psychiatry13. Philosophical considerations of an internet-enabled telephone and computer psychiatric symptom monitoring system: maintaining thebalance between subjectivity and objectivity in research14. The assessment of emotional awareness: can technology make a contribution?Part 5 - Ethical Issues in Technology and Psychiatry15. Thinking about the repair manual: technique and technology in psychiatry16. Beyond repugnance: human enhancement and the President's Council on Bioethics17. The reflectively anxious and depressed; psychotropics and lives worth living
Synopsis
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. This book exams how technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and considers at just what cost these developments have been made. It includes a range of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters from a range of psychiatrists and philosophers., 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., Technology has had, and will continue to have, a major effect on the field of psychiatry - in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. In a collection of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters, this book exams how technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and considers at just what cost these developments have been made.
LC Classification Number
RC437.5
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