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Crime, Punishment and Disease in a Relativistic Universe (Hardcover)
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Crime, Punishment and Disease in a Relativistic Universe (Hardcover)
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In Crime, Punishment and Disease, Antony Flew makes clear both the
meaning and the implications carried by the application of the
expression "mental disease." He aims to discourage its use in
conditions that provide the victims of such diseases with an excuse
for failing to perform what would have been their imperative duties
had they enjoyed good mental health. Flew attacks the gross
over-extensions of the notion of mental disease on both sides of
the Atlantic. He defends human dignity and responsibility against
the suggestion that we are all, or most of us, "sick, sick, sick."
In particular, he challenges the paternalist pretensions of people
who claim a right to control and manipulate others because they are
allegedly sick, and consequently not responsible for what they
do.In a typical ordinary disease, Flew notes, it is the patient who
complains of the disease rather than someone else who complains
about the patient. But those who claim that some crime or all crime
is symptomatic of mental disease and those who identify disorders
such as attention/deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as
conditions requiring psychiatric attention are taking the
disfavored behavior rather than the distress of their patients as
the warrant for supposedly medical interventions. They should
instead first consider how what they propose to call mental disease
does, and does not, resemble syphilis, measles, and other
communicable diseases.Flew sees his work as complementary to Thomas
Szasz's. He applies a philosophical perspective to problems Szasz
discusses as a psychiatrist. This work will be of particular
interest to students of philosophy and politics, in that it relates
modern discussion of mental illness to the Plato of The Republic.
Flew also takes note in this context of Samuel Butler's Erewhon.
This work will be of direct relevance to criminologists, as well as
those interested in social welfare, philosophy of education, and
new developments in psychiatry.
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