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Zusatztext This is a valuable review of philosophical approaches to mental illness tha is both clear and critical. The respectful approach to persons is increasingly important when our media presents stories of situations in which failures in our mental health system have led to tragedy. Informationen zum Autor Eric Matthews was born in Liverpool in 1936. He studied philosophy, both as an undergraduate and a postgraduate, at St John's College, Oxford, from 1957 to 1963, where he was taught by Paul Grice, Gilbert Ryle, and A.J. Ayer. He then taught philosophy for almost forty years at the University of Aberdeen, apart from visiting posts at the University of New Orleans and at the College of Wooster, Ohio, U.S.A. He has a longstanding interest in the philosophical and ethical problems arising from psychiatry: he is a member of the National Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy Special Interest Group and was a member of the Steering Committee of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry. In 2002, he retired from a Personal Chair of Philosophy at Aberdeen, and is now Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Honorary Research Professor of Medical and Psychiatric Ethics at the University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introducing the problem 2: Illness and disease 3: 'Minds' and 'bodies' 4: Phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty 5: The body-subject and mental disorder 6: Mental disorder and choice 7: Mental disorder and legal resposibility 8: Treatment without consent ...
