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- Title
The DSM as a Moving Laboratory: The Role of the Diagnostic Manual in the Stabilizing and Objectivization of Pharmaceutical Reason.
- Authors
WRÓBLEWSKI, MICHAL
- Abstract
The aim of this article is to trace the paradigm shift that occurred in psychiatry in the 1970s. This change had a key impact on the social perception of health and illness. The theoretical framework of the text is actor-network theory (ANT) and science and technology studies (STS), which deal with the influence of technoscience on society. Using the model of laboratory practice produced within their framework, I attempt to show how the creation of a new diagnostic manual resembled constructing an innovation in a special environment for the purpose of achieving replicable results and controlling the invention's operation outside the context of creation. In the second part of the text I will deal with the new medical rationale, defining the concept of 'pharmaceutical reason' and linking its model of human health with the process of biomedicalization. At the end I cite research referring to the use of the diagnostic manual in medical practice.
- Subjects
DISTRIBUTED shared memory; SOCIAL perception; SCIENCE education; BIOETHICS; ACTOR-network theory
- Publication
Polish Sociological Review, 2015, Vol 189, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
1231-1413
- Publication type
Article