The DSM-5 in Perspective Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Demazeux, Steeves (Editor), Singy, Patrick (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 10
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Biology > Philosophy.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Psychiatry.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Philosophy of Biology.

Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May 2013 of its fifth edition, the DS...