1st Edition
The Selling of DSM The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry
By Stuart A. Kirk
Copyright 1992
280 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition —univer-sally known as DSM-III —embodied a radical new method for identifying psychiatric illness. Kirk and Kutchins challenge the general understanding about the research data and the pro-cess that led to the peer acceptance of DSM-III. Their original and controversial reconstruction... Read more
Psychiatric Diagnosis and the New Bible; The Transformation of Psychiatric Troubles; The Social Control of Error; Making a Manual; A Careful Look at the Field Trials; Reliability and the Remarkable Achievement; The Art of Claim-Making; Securing Diagnostic Turf; The Social Context of Diagnostic Error
Biography
Stuart A. Kirk
