Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide

(Part of the Basic Bioethics Series)

by David H. Brendel

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A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics.

Psychiatry today is torn by opposing sensibilities. Is it primarily a science of brain functioning or primarily an art of understanding the human mind in its social and cultural context? Competing conceptions of mental illness as amenable...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262513250

ISBN13:9780262513258

Release Date:August 2009

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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