Measuring Mental Disorders —— Psychiatry, Science and Society

----- 精神疾病的测量：精神病学，科学和社会

ISBN: 9781785483059 出版年：2018 页码：304 ISTE Press - Elsevier_RM

This book is a collective work draws on the perspective of social sciences, mobilizing perspectives from the sociology of science, the history of psychiatry, medical ethnography and public policy analysis. This initiative, which has no precedent in social sciences, is surrounded by an original, if not apparently paradoxical statement: considering that the deployment of these processes, strictly formal and depersonalized, is justified in becoming the rule in a society known as "individuals".Presents the measurement of mental disorders (tests / scales) across the various sectorsDetermines the underpinning of this measure and its performanceExplains the rise of these tests and its successUnderstands its impact on users