Universal cures for idiosyncratic illnesses: a genealogy of therapeutic reasoning in the mental health field
dc.contributor.author | Collin, Johanne | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-27T16:07:32Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | fr |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-27T16:07:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-08 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20947 | |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | fr |
dc.subject | 19th-century medicine | fr |
dc.subject | Clinical reasoning | fr |
dc.subject | Prescription | fr |
dc.subject | Psychiatry | fr |
dc.subject | Therapeutics | fr |
dc.title | Universal cures for idiosyncratic illnesses: a genealogy of therapeutic reasoning in the mental health field | fr |
dc.type | Article | fr |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Université de Montréal. Faculté de pharmacie | fr |
dcterms.abstract | Over the past decades, there has been a significant increase in prescriptions of psychotropic drugs for mental disorders. So far, most of the explanations of the phenomenon have focused on the process of medicalization, but little attention has been cast towards physicians' day-to-day clinical reasoning, and the way it affects therapeutic decision-making. This article addresses the complex relationship between aetiology, diagnosis and drug treatment by examining the style of reasoning underlying prescribing practices through an historical lens. A genealogy of contemporary prescribing practices is proposed, that draws significant comparisons between 19th-century medicine and modern psychiatry. Tensions between specific, standardized cures and specific, idiosyncratic patients have been historically at play in clinical reasoning - and still are today. This inquiry into the epistemological foundations of contemporary drug prescription reveals an underlying search for scientific legitimacy. | fr |
dcterms.isPartOf | urn:ISSN:1363-4593 | fr |
dcterms.isPartOf | urn:ISSN:1461-7196 | fr |
dcterms.language | eng | fr |
UdeM.ReferenceFournieParDeposant | COLLIN J (2015), Universal cures for idiosyncratic illnesses: a genealogy of therapeutic reasoning in the mental health field, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, vol 19 (3): 245-262. | fr |
UdeM.VersionRioxx | Version acceptée / Accepted Manuscript | fr |
oaire.citationTitle | Health | |
oaire.citationVolume | 19 | |
oaire.citationIssue | 3 | |
oaire.citationStartPage | 245 | |
oaire.citationEndPage | 262 |
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