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By G. Verwey,L. Richards

within the interval among approximately 1820 and approximately 1870 German psychiatry was once born and reborn: fust as anthropologically oriented psychiatry after which as biomedical psychiatry. There has, so far, been almost no systematic exam of the philosophical factors which decided those conceptions of psychiatry. the purpose of our research is to make up for this omission to the simplest of our skill. The paintings is aimed toward a truly various readership: within the first position historians of technology (psychiatry, drugs, psychology, body structure) and psychiatrists (psychologists, physicians) with an curiosity within the philosophical and ancient elements in their self-discipline, and within the moment position philosophers operating within the fields of the historical past of philosophy, philosophy of technology, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of drugs. The constitution and content material of our learn were made up our minds by means of an try to stability various methods to the ancient fabric. One technique emphasises the philosophical literature and appears on the query of how during which respectable philosophy decided the self-conception (Selbstverstiindnis) of the technological know-how of the day (Chapters 2 and 4). the opposite stresses the clinical literature and is worried with throwing gentle on its philosophical implications (Chapters 1 and 3).

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