Bøker av Lawrie Reznek

Originally published in 1987, this book is about the classification of bodily conditions into diseases. It provides a full account of the concept of disease, examining the issue of whether disease status is something we discover or invent and the issue of whether disease attributions involve implicit value judgements.

Psychiatry is in a mess. Patients who urgently need help go untreated, and perfectly normal people get over-diagnosed and receive unnecessary medical treatment. Peddling Mental Disorder takes a number of examples - major depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, social anxiety disorder, attention deficit disorder, and bipolar disorder - to illustrate the steady expansion of DSM and the over-medication of society.

An investigation of the insanity defence used in court which draws its inspiration from a series of real case studies. The volume is part of the PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN SCIENCE series and explains why the law excuses certain actions on the basis of insanity with a view to presenting an argument for the abolition of the insanity defence.