False positives in psychiatric diagnosis: Implications for human freedom

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-17

  Wakefield, Jerome C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DSM; Ethics; Evolutionary psychology; False positive diagnosis; Function; Harmful dysfunction; Justice; Misdiagnosis; Philosophy of psychiatry; Psychiatric diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ETHICS; FREEDOM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FREEDOM; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MENTAL DISORDERS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77951223414     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-010-9132-2     Document Type: Article

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