The Selling of DSM - The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry

When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition-univer-sally known as DSM-III-embodied a radical new method for identifying psychiatric illness

List of contents

Psychiatric Diagnosis and the New Bible; The Transformation of Psychiatric Troubles; The Social Control of Error; Making a Manual; A Careful Look at the Field Trials; Reliability and the Remarkable Achievement; The Art of Claim-Making; Securing Diagnostic Turf; The Social Context of Diagnostic Error

About the author

Stuart A. Kirk

Product details

• Authors: Stuart A. Kirk
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1992
• EAN: 9780202304328
• ISBN: 978-0-202-30432-8
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine