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Published on: September 16, 2015
[Knowledge and power at a molecular level; biological psychiatry in a social context]
1GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam. b.verhoeff@ggzingeest.nl
Abstract:
How do we acquire our knowledge about psychiatric disorders and how did the current biologically way of thinking in psychiatry originate? With the help of the philosophy of Michel Foucault and Nikolas Rose this essay describes the conditions that made possible today's biological approach in psychiatry. It will become clear that research in the life sciences and the psychiatric knowledge arising from this research are shaped and formed in a complex network of social, economic, political and scientific forces. The biological approach to psychiatric disorders is the product of present-day relationships between scientific developments and commercial corporations.
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