The selling of DSM : the rhetoric of science in psychiatry /: the rhetoric of science in psychiatry. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stuart A. Kirk, Herb Kutchins.
• Other Names: Kirk, Stuart A, 1945-; Kutchins, Herb
• Contents: 1. Psychiatric Diagnosis and the New Bible. A New Diagnostic Manual. Overview. The Transformation of Psychiatric Troubles. Transformation of the Problem. The Kappa Contortion -- 3. The Social Control of Error. The Control of Discretion. Interpreting the Past. The Second Wave: Announcing Initial Success -- 4. Making a Manual. DSM and Homosexuality: A Cautionary Tale. Architect, Critic, and Defender of DSM. The Palace Revolt and Invisible Colleges. Ratifying DSM-III. The Medical Model under Siege. The Final Product: DSM-III -- 5. A Careful Look at the Field Trials -- 6. Reliability and the Remarkable Achievement. Claiming Success with the DSM-III Field Trials. The Unmaking of the Reliability Problem. Interpreting the Field Trials. Additional Reliability Studies. Claiming Success -- 7. The Art of Claim-Making. Claim-Making and the Scientific Article. The First Word. The Slippery Standard of "Good" The Art of Managing Science -- 8. Securing Diagnostic Turf -- 9. The Social Context of Diagnostic Error. Diagnosis as Technical Rationality. Meanings of Diagnostic Error. Uncertainty and Mental Health Practice. Diagnosis as Rationalization of Action. Social Context of Deliberate Misdiagnosis. Diagnostic Conclusions.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (270 pages)
• Subjects: 616.89/0012; Mental illness -- Classification -- Political aspects; Mental illness -- Classification -- Social aspects; Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Political aspects; Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Social aspects; Mental Disorders -- classification; Mental Disorders -- diagnosis; Politics; Social Conditions; Maladies mentales -- Classification -- Aspect politique; Maladies mentales -- Classification -- Aspect social; Maladies mentales -- Diagnostic -- Aspect politique; Maladies mentales -- Diagnostic -- Aspect social; Mental illness; Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Political aspects; Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Social aspects; Diagnostic and statistical manual; Psychiatrie; Wissenschaftlichkeit; Wissenschaftsentwicklung; Wissenschaftlichkeit; Psychiatrie; Wissenschaftsentwicklung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351474337; 1351474332
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.