Notes on a few issues in the philosophy of psychiatry

Mens Sana Monographs

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 128-183

  Singh, Ajai ^a,c   Singh, Shakuntala ^b  

^a Mens Sana Monographs   (India)

^b Joshi Bedekar College   (India)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Biological And Psychosocial; Critics Of Psychiatry; Diagnosis And Medical Model In Psychiatry; Disease, Illness, Sickness And Disorder; Eclecticism; Mind Body Problem And Paradigm Shifts In Psychiatry; Psychiatric Ethics; Why, How And What

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349141299     PISSN: 09731229     EISSN: 19984014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1229.40731     Document Type: Article

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