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- catalog abstract ""In Crime, Punishment and Disease, Antony Flew makes clear both the meaning and the implications carried by the application of the expression "mental disease." He aims to discourage its use in conditions that provide the victims of such diseases with an excuse for failing to perform what would have been their imperative duties had they enjoyed good mental health. Flew attacks the gross over-extensions of the notion of mental disease on both sides of the Atlantic. He defends human dignity and responsibility against the suggestion that we are all, or most of us, "sick, sick, sick." In particular, he challenges the paternalist pretensions of people who claim a right to control and manipulate others because they are allegedly sick, and consequently not responsible for what they do." "In a typical ordinary disease, Flew notes, it is the patient who complains of the disease rather than someone else who complains about the patient. But those who claim that some crime or all crime is symptomatic of mental disease and those who identify disorders such as attention/deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as conditions requiring psychiatric attention are taking the disfavored behavior rather than the distress of their patients as the warrant for supposedly medical interventions. They should instead first consider how what they propose to call mental disease does, and does not, resemble syphilis, measles, and other communicable diseases." "Flew sees his work as complementary to Thomas Szasz's. He applies a philosophical perspective to problems Szasz discusses as a psychiatrist. Crime, Punishment and Disease will be of particular interest to students of philosophy, social welfare, education, and new developments in psychiatry, and will be of direct relevance to criminologists."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Crime or disease?".
- catalog contributor b12193286.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""In Crime, Punishment and Disease, Antony Flew makes clear both the meaning and the implications carried by the application of the expression "mental disease." He aims to discourage its use in conditions that provide the victims of such diseases with an excuse for failing to perform what would have been their imperative duties had they enjoyed good mental health. Flew attacks the gross over-extensions of the notion of mental disease on both sides of the Atlantic. He defends human dignity and responsibility against the suggestion that we are all, or most of us, "sick, sick, sick." In particular, he challenges the paternalist pretensions of people who claim a right to control and manipulate others because they are allegedly sick, and consequently not responsible for what they do." "In a typical ordinary disease, Flew notes, it is the patient who complains of the disease rather than someone else who complains about the patient. But those who claim that some crime or all crime is symptomatic of mental disease and those who identify disorders such as attention/deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as conditions requiring psychiatric attention are taking the disfavored behavior rather than the distress of their patients as the warrant for supposedly medical interventions. They should instead first consider how what they propose to call mental disease does, and does not, resemble syphilis, measles, and other communicable diseases." "Flew sees his work as complementary to Thomas Szasz's. He applies a philosophical perspective to problems Szasz discusses as a psychiatrist. Crime, Punishment and Disease will be of particular interest to students of philosophy, social welfare, education, and new developments in psychiatry, and will be of direct relevance to criminologists."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "I. A Survey of the Logical Geography -- II. Disease and Mental Disease -- III. Determinist Presuppositions Cannot Disprove.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-136) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxviii, 139 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0765807718 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers,".
- catalog subject "2002 G-750".
- catalog subject "614.1 21".
- catalog subject "Crime.".
- catalog subject "Forensic Psychiatry.".
- catalog subject "Forensic psychiatry.".
- catalog subject "Insanity Defense.".
- catalog subject "Mental Disorders.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "RC454.4 .F583 2001".
- catalog subject "W 740 F618c 1973a".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. A Survey of the Logical Geography -- II. Disease and Mental Disease -- III. Determinist Presuppositions Cannot Disprove.".
- catalog title "Crime or disease?".
- catalog title "Crime, punishment, and disease / Antony Flew ; with a new introduction by the author.".
- catalog type "text".