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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197781319ISBN-10:197781314UPC:9780197781319Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral PhilosophySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCB2AMXVV7
Madness: A Philosophical Exploration
Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. Madness, like all other disease, happens when something in the mind, or in the brain, does not operate the way that it should or as nature intended. In this paradigm, the role of the healer is simply to find the dysfunction and fix it. This remains the dominant perspective in...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197781319ISBN-10:197781314UPC:9780197781319Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral PhilosophySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCB2AMXVV7
Justin Garson is a professor of philosopher at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. In addition to Madness: A Philosophical Exploration (2022), he is also the author of The Biological Mind: Second Edition (2022), and the forthcoming The Madness Pill: The Quest to Create Insanity and One Doctor's Discovery that Transformed Psychiatry. He also writes for...
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