Psychiatry under pressure: Reflections on psychiatry's drift towards a reductionist biomedical conception of mental illness

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-115

  Nys, Thomas R V ^a   Nys, Maurits G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Biomedicine; Disease; Identity; Managed care; Mental illness; Philosophy; Psyciatry; Reductionism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NETHERLANDS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHIATRY; UNCERTAINTY;

HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NETHERLANDS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PSYCHIATRY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 33646149650     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-005-9655-x     Document Type: Article

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