
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1978
Pages: 235-250
Series: Philosophy and medicine
ISBN (Hardback): 9789401569118
Full citation:
, "The concept of mental illness", in: Mental health: philosophical perspectives, Berlin, Springer, 1978


The concept of mental illness
explanation or justification?
pp. 235-250
in: Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart Spicker (eds), Mental health: philosophical perspectives, Berlin, Springer, 1978Abstract
Why does the concept of "mental illness' cause continuing difficulties, both philosophical and practical? There are, as I have tried to show for the past twenty years, several reasons for this [7, 11, 12, 14] .
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1978
Pages: 235-250
Series: Philosophy and medicine
ISBN (Hardback): 9789401569118
Full citation:
, "The concept of mental illness", in: Mental health: philosophical perspectives, Berlin, Springer, 1978