- Anglický jazyk
Psychiatry
Autor: Very Short Introduction
- Psychiatry is increasingly a part of everyday life (think about Prozac, ADHD, Care in the Community) and this book provides a valuable and comprehensible introduction to the subject.
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- Psychiatry is increasingly a part of everyday life (think about Prozac, ADHD, Care in the Community) and this book provides a valuable and comprehensible introduction to the subject.
- Covers a broad range of topics, from the main illnesses and their identification, to the history of their treatment, and the future of the discipline.
- Tom Burns was the psychiatric advisor to the UK Parliamentary committee scrutinising the UK Mental Health Bill.
More than any other branch of medicine psychiatry has been attacked and criticised. There is a long catalogue of abuses - from mundane neglect and bizarre treatments through to political abuse by totalitarian regimes. Modern psychiatry too brings with it new controversies such as the medicalization of normal life, the power of the drug companies and the use of psychiatry as an agent of social control. The book does not shy away from outlining these issues but provides the reader with a clear understanding of what psychiatry is capable of, and what it is not capable of, so that they can draw their own conclusions.
- Vydavateľstvo: Oxford University Press
- Rok vydania: 2006
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9780192807274