Philosophical perspectives on technology and psychiatry
By: edited by James Phillips.
Contributors: Phillips, James, 1938-
Series: International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780199207428
Subjects: Psychiatry -- Philosophy.; Psychiatry -- Technological innovations.; Psychiatry.; Philosophy.; Technology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The instrument metaphor, hyponarrativity, and the generic clinician / John Z. Sadler; value: Technological rationality in psychiatry : immanent critique, critical theory, and a pragmatist alternative / Peter Zachar and Scott Bartlett; value: Technological reason and the regulation of emotion / Louis C. Charland; value: Technology, aesthetic explanation, and psychoanalysis / Miguel Uribe; value: Focusing the lenses of feminist theories to reflect on technology and psychiatry / Sue V. Rosser; value: The critical theory of psychopharmacology : the work of David Healy and beyond / Douglas Porter; value: Toward a post-technological information theory / Donald Mender; value: Technology and mental disorders : a clinical probe into the differential impact on individuals / Douglas W. Heinrichs; value: Frontal fatigue : how technology may contribute to mental illness / Mark D. Rego; value: Bored to tears? : depression and Heidegger's concept of profound boredom : a postpsychiatry contribution / Philip Sinaikin; value: Psychiatric rehabilitation and the notion of technology in psychiatry / Abraham Rudnick; value: Drugs, not hugs : antidepressant medication trials and suicidality in children : a case history in the philosophy of science as an argument for the need for improved technology in psychiatry / Stuart L. Kaplan; value: Philosophical considerations of an internet-enabled telephone and computer psychiatric symptom monitoring system : maintaining the balance between subjectivity and objectivity in research / Karen Iseminger and Dale Theobald; value: The assessment of emotional awareness : can technology make a contribution? / Robert S. Kruger; value: Thinking about the repair manual : technique and technology in psychiatry / Jennifer Radden; value: Beyond repugnance : human enhancement and the president's council on bioethics / Michael A. Cerullo; value: The reflectively anxious and depressed : psychotropics and lives worth living / Mark P. Jenkins.