Philosophy of psychopharmacology : smart pills, happy pills, and pepp pills

Summary: "This book provides a framework for addressing important philosophical issues in psychiatry and psychopharmacology. The approach draws on theory and data from modern congnitive-affective neuroscience, and attempts to address objective and subjective aspects of psychiatric disorders, to integrate our knowledge of mechanisms and of meanings and to provide a balanced view of the good and bad of psychotropics." --cover

Record details

ISBN: 9780521856522 (hardback)
ISBN: 0521856523 (hardback)
Physical Description: print
xi, 210 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-199) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Psychopharmacology - a remarkable development -- Philosophical questions raised by psychopharmacology -- How to think about science, language, and medicine : classical, critical, and integrated perspectives -- Conceptual questions about psychotropics -- Explanatory questions about psychotropics -- Moral questions about psychotropics.