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Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry (Paperback)
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Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry (Paperback)
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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Our lives are dominated by technology. We live with and through the
achievements of technology. What is true of the rest of life is of
course true of medicine. Many of us owe our existence and our
continued vigour to some achievement of medical technology. And
what is true in a major way of general medicine is to a significant
degree true of psychiatry. Prozac has long since arrived, and in
its wake an ever-growing armamentarium of new psychotropics; beyond
that, neuroscience promises ever more technological advances for
the field. However, the effect of technology on the field of
psychiatry remains highly ambiguous. On the one hand there are the
achievements, both in the science and practice of psychiatry; on
the other hand technology's influence on the field threatens its
identity as a humanistic practice. In this ambiguity psychiatry is
not unique - major thinkers have for a long time been highly
ambivalent and concerned about the technological order that now
defines modern society. For the future, the danger is that the
psychiatrically real becomes that which can be seen, the symptom,
and especially that which can be measured. Disorders and treatments
might become reduced to what can be defined by diagnostic criteria
and what can be mapped out on a scale. This book exams how
technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and
considers at just what cost these developments have been made. It
includes a range of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters from
a range of psychiatrists and philosophers.
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