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• ISBN 10: 0191034053
• ISBN 13: 9780191034053
• Author: Hauswald

In psychiatry there is no sharp boundary between the normal and the pathological. Although clear cases abound, it is often indeterminate whether a particular condition does or does not qualify as a mental disorder. For example, definitions of subthreshold disorders and of the prodromal stages of diseases are notoriously contentious. Philosophers and linguists call concepts that lack sharp boundaries, and thus admit of borderline cases, vague. Although blurred boundaries between the normal and the pathological are a recurrent theme in many publications concerned with the classification of mental disorders, systematic approaches that take into account philosophical reflections on vagueness are rare.

Table of contents:

1. Part I Overview of vagueness in psychiatry
2. 1 Vagueness in psychiatry: An overview
3. Part II Health and disease as matters of degree
4. 2 Mental and physical gradualism in Graeco-Roman medicine
5. 3 Disease as a vague and thick cluster concept
6. 4 Disease entities and the borderline between health and disease: Where is the place of gradations?
7. 5 Indeterminacy in medical classification: On continuity, uncertainty, and vagueness
8. Part III Vagueness in psychiatric classification and diagnosis
9. 6 Psychiatric diagnosis, tacit knowledge, and criteria
10. 7 Fuzzy boundaries and tough decisions in psychiatry
11. 8 Reflections on what is normal, what is not, and fuzzy boundaries in psychiatric classifications
12. 9 Vagueness, the sorites paradox, and posttraumatic stress disorder
13. Part IV Social, moral, and legal implications
14. 10 Moral and legal implications of the continuity between delusional and non-delusional beliefs
15. 11 Mental illness versus mental disorder: Arguments and forensic implications
16. 12 The American experience with the categorical ban against executing the intellectually disabled: New frontiers and unresolved questions
17. 13 Typical and atypical mental disorders: Moral implications for academic–industry collaborations

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